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
- The book On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
- Practicing corporeal politics
Technology
- decentralization and federation, currently focused on Nostr
- the actor model, especially as it relates to using CapTP for distributed access control
- Atomic Linux distributions
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
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