What's top of mind
Taking some inspiration from Andy Matuschak—who keeps a similar index of publicly available published notes online—I'm going to try to keep this note up to date with the topics and ideas that are consuming my mind grapes right now.
Left-wing politics
- socialism and Worker cooperatives
- Everything is an object that is not a white man
- The book On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
Technology
- data sovereignty
- decentralization and federation
- the actor model, especially as it relates to building distributed data pipelines
- Anti-capitalist open source licenses and ways to support the software commons outside of capitalism
Philosophy and cultural criticism
- The work of Mark Fisher and the Ccru
- Hyperstition, Cybernetics and the preemptive shaping of desires
- The Great Filter, the Dark forest and the Fermi paradox
- Finite and Infinite Games
Anti-capitalism, anti-work and workers' rights
- capitalist realism and the lie of Conscious capitalism
- Work Won't Love You Back
- the ubiquity of work in the 21st century
- Hate your job
- The precariat class and Liquid modernity