- Public School (SPS) Feedback Loops
- Medieval feedback loops
- Design Pattern Languages for Single Family Homes
- Dystopian fiction that inspires real products
- Two Watersheds - too much institutionalization
- Inter-rater disagreement is desirable
- Nozick’s experience machine and even more powerfully, in reverse
- Russia and the Horde
- Philosopher thought experiment emojis
- Mental models I like
- Parable of blind men and an elephant
- Carolingian minuscule
- Bounded rationality
- Dreams are amazing
- Sleep has a profound effect on memory and learning
- Adjacent Possible
- Live player vs dead player
- Hull shapes
- Naval Architecture 101
- Horses in agriculture and the three field system
- Power shift from lords to peasants and kings
- Heavy knights and destriers
- Increasing costs of human labor and mechanization
- Arab invaders, knights, and feudalism
- Depopulation is often correlated with decline
- Stronger horses and farm yields
- Counter-Knight missile innovation crossbows, longbows, and muskets
- Horses, peasant mobility and urbanization
- LiPo batteries and wiring
- Brushless DC motors
- Propeller design
- Displacement vs planing hulls
- Hull speed
- Power of Fiction
- Urbanization, literacy and heretics
- Heavy plate and heraldry
- Naive realism
- The Three Orders in the Middle Ages
- Clarke's first law
- Goodhart's law - indicators will be gamed
- The Authoritarian High-Modernist Recipe for Failure