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How I learned to stop worrying and love the “end of the world”

Published in February 7th, 2025
Posted by in Philosophy, Strategy
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Long ago I used to believe in eternal human progress. I believed in the singularity. I believed that the future would eventually look something like Startrek. When I was 24 that got turned upside down. I’m not going to repeat all the arguments for the triad of overpopulation, climate change, and resource depletion here. Others […]

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How to fix a broken thermostat

Published in February 6th, 2025
Posted by in How to
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I am increasingly appreciating the concept of appropriate technology. The story begins with us being unable to switch the rear furnace (our RV has two 12V/LPG driven furnaces. The front furnace heats front half + bathroom and the rear furnace heats the bedroom. From my perspective, the furnace is a black box. Once it is […]

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The rise and decline of the American middle class

Published in February 6th, 2025
Posted by in Work
21 Comments

The article, The Coming Fury of an Angry America (via @mymoneyshrugged), explains the predicament of the middle class very well. This further strengthens my resolve not to join the middle class. In my opinion, the middle class has as its fundamental core problem the issue of willingly becoming a single cog in a machine it […]

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