“Dictators always lie about what they’ve done, but are often quite plain about what they want to do.” –Gary Kasparov

“Washington has discovered a brilliant financial strategy. Cut benefits for people who need them, cut taxes for people who don't, and borrow the difference from people who aren't old enough to vote.” –Economist Justin Wolfers

“You think the closure of the Strait of Hormuz was frightening? That was trivial. It’s twenty per cent of the oil. Taiwan is eighty per cent of the supply chain of the world. A three-week brownout there would have a larger economic impact than the Great Depression.” –Pat Gelsinger, former C.E.O. of Intel

Do you have the plant, or does it have you? The three eras of nicotine use throughout history:

Three of the smartest people on the planet all recognize this one thing.

Action sports reliably produce flow states more than any other activity on earth. They each perfectly hit on one of these three flow triggers: 1. Rich Environment 2. Deep Embodiment 3. High Consequences So the next time you’re looking to get in the zone… start by getting out of your house! The richness of adventure sports will help you train the state so you can more easily access it in waking life. And… if you’d like to join us in a week of doing just that… This fall, 15–30 of us are going deep into the Colorado Rockies at peak color for Camp Omega. Setting up base camps, navigating together, and exploring literature, art, religion and philosophy in the most magnificent classroom on earth. Think Plato's Academy meets backcountry expedition. Five days to train your body, brain, heart and mind. You can apply here: campomega.flowgenomeproject.… Sep 27 – Oct 2, 2026.

The most famous economist you've probably never heard of, a Nobel Prize winner that lives in your medicine cabinet, and a 2,000 year-old rabbi walk into a bar and accidentally solve our culture wars. And they might even save democracy too.

Three invisible bugs in our global code that drive 90% of human conflict and suffering:

AI writing is the meme coin of social currency.

Why psychedelics won’t give you superpowers…

our political moment in a nutshell... "Shower upon Man every earthly blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, so that nothing but bubbles of bliss can be seen on the surface; give him economic prosperity, such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes and busy himself with the continuation of his species, and even then out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive good sense his fatal fantastic element." –Dostoevsky

“The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason.” G.K. Chesterton

What the UAP Pentagon papers won't tell us... Here's where to look instead:

“Most economists will acknowledge that technological progress can cause some adjustment problems in the short run. What is rarely noted is that the short run can be a lifetime.” –Oxford economist Carl Benedikt Frey

Last days of Rome–we're in it "“Musk’s attorneys said asking about Burning Man and drugs at trial would be “inflammatory” and “irrelevant” and asked to exclude those subjects from the trial. The federal judge overseeing the case, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, ruled last month that OpenAI can’t bring up ketamine in court, but that Burning Man is fair game.” #rhinoket

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” –Blaise Pascal

“The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends." –Oscar Wilde

““The next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”” –Wendell Berry

“The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.” –Merchant of Venice

“There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.” –Wendell Berry