We know from evolution that ideas are where things and behaviors come from.
The ideas are embedded in the genes which then go on to be expressed.
Ideas are imperfect because they are abstractions.
This creates a distribution of good and bad ideas.
The thing that is special about us is that we have general intel...
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Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
Media tells you where culture is heading.
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My mom was Buddhist, and my grandmother is a Buddhist nun so I've been exposed to Buddhism a lot.
There's this fundamental premise that goes "Life is suffering."
I don't think this to be the case. I think life is ignorance. The moment you understand what the suffering was for, it's unlikely that you wouldn't be okay...
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Something that’s been bothering me for awhile now is Thiel’s talk with Peterson where he mentioned that being irrational isn’t the way to go.
Just hit me that he talks about Zuck’s irrationality when he rejected the 1 billion acquisition offer, and essentially saying that founders need this kind of irrationality to b...
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In other cultures, there is a ritual for a boy to become a man, but I've been curious as to why there isn't one in the West.
I realized that the manual for becoming a man and the path out of the self harm we are doing is in the Bible.
In this cast, I mentioned that a worldview fractured, and when this happens your p...
I saw something super racist against white people in a child’s game the other day.
This factors into my larger question of how did we get to this point.
I think it has something to do with the invasion of Middle East when Americans realized they had lost the moral high ground.
The revelation of what was happening
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Kind of crazy how you can only be for or against racism.
The opposite of racism is not anti-racism, but individualism.
Part of this belief is that good ideas are paramount, and good ideas can come from any individual.
That’s why we rank ideas based on their merit and have science to force out bad ideas.
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Isn't a better measure of marriage whether or not the marriage had a form of self-actualization, rather than time together?
Moving to this as a standard is a lot better than reverting to traditional norms of bread winner and house caretaker.
I'm not sure what it means for a marriage to self-actualize, but I think a...
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My thesis of how we got here is shifting to the idea that the reaction to the world wars is ending because it reached a tipping point where preventing totalitarianism eventually led to totalitarianism.
The reaction was to have a bias towards being open, but being open to everything eventually led to being open to not...
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