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What Really Ails Medicine?
Looking out at the big, empty Pacific — just beyond the outer break, Kauai, Hawaii Note: While I can’t promise this post will be what some might consider “jargon free” — I’m going to do my best to...
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Understanding the Importance of Evolution and Cross-Paradigmatic Thinking in...
Nursemaids For those unfamiliar with my health travails this summer, I had a mesenteric venous thrombosis — basically a blockage in the primary vein in my bowel. As such, I’ve been plunged into our...
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Quickie Post — What is a Black Sword, Anyway?
Ghillie and Boo Boo, on a cold day outside of Genessee, ID One of my favorite literary tropes comes from one of the most talented fantasy writers of all time — someone who, with maybe a little...
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Transgenderism and its Context in Society
White Sand Lake, Clearwater NF, Idaho It’s been more than a year at least since the issue of transgenderism, and its effects on divisive politics, have been raging in our society. But even with the...
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Quickie Post — Weaponized Empathy
Sharing a lovely bottle of Sancerre with my 14 year old son at L’Express, in Montreal One of the terms that gets batted around quite a bit lately is the phrase ‘weaponized empathy’. I’ve been talking...
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Quickie Post — What is Memetic War?
Big Sand Lake, Clearwater NF, Idaho One of the terms I bat around occasionally is the concept of ‘memetic war’. But what, exactly, is a memetic war? It’s a great buzzword, for sure. But it’s actually...
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Quickie Explainer — Complexity Limits
On the Challenge Course One of the hardest things I’ve seen people struggle with is their cognitive incapacity to realize someone else they’re talking to is NOT understanding what they’re saying, and...
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Getting to the Truth — Concept Maps and what exactly do the v-Memes tell you?
Ladle Rapid on the Selway River, from another life One of the things that is exquisitely irritating to me is when people go on about “the truth”. Why? Because the person talking about it usually isn’t...
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AI, Maxwell’s Demons and the Pirate Pugg — Redux
Family vacation — Grand Teton National Park One of my favorite pieces of whimsical science fiction is Stanislaw Lem’s story in The Cyberiad about Klapaucius’ and Trurl’s (two robots who are...
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Are Men from Mars and Women from Venus?
Cape Kiwanda, Oregon — photo by Charles Conor Pezeshki (my son) If there’s anything that characterizes intellectual life nowadays, it’s the tragedy of metacognition — the things not talked about in...
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On Trump’s Assassination Attempt, Civil War, and Leaky LARPs
Yosemite Fire Sunset, 2024 It’s increasingly hard to keep up with any cogent view of the news cycle, in these last couple of weeks in July. Short version — Donald Trump was nearly assassinated on July...
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Why Inside Out 2 is Upside Down
Boo Boo on the Beach — Pure Joy Personified When you have a wife who’s a psychologist, and a movie that’s directly on psychology comes out, guess what. You’re gonna go watch it. And I’m not talking...
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The 2024 Olympics — A Master Class in Elite Coding Disruption
A river runs through it You know that the world is in the need of understanding the power of psychopathy when one of the singular events, specifically hosted to bring the nations of the world...
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Troubled – A Memoir
Brothers (and a cute dog)– in the Valley I’ve recently completed a book that I think should be on the reading list of basically everyone in the United States, who is involved in understanding and...
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Luxury Beliefs and Land Grant Universities
Morning on the River of No Return, Salmon River, ID For those unfamiliar with me, I’m a graduate of multiple elite universities (Case Institute of Technology, Duke University) who elected to be a...
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The Obesity Pandemic and the Balance Between Genetic and Memetic War
2024 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Cover One of the things I spend far too much time pondering is the old “nature vs. nurture” question. Why wander about such well-trod ground? If you read my...
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Back to Basics – Conway’s Law – the Mechanics of It All
A day at the beach In between babbling about memetics to friends, every now and then one will get a word in edgewise, and ask “OK, Mr. Smartypants. How do we change outcomes?” My answer is always the...
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End Times and the Politics of Immiseration
Snow Peak, St. Joe National Forest A book so interesting, I’m listening to it twice, as I digest the implications is Peter Turchin’s End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political...
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More Boeing Blues — Starliner, DEI, and Getting Saved by SpaceX
Three cheers and one cheer more! Two astronauts aboard the Boeing Starliner, a reusable space capsule design by Boeing Defense, have been temporarily stranded at the International Space Station due to...
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Should We Really Include the A in Anthropogenic Global Warming? (Part 1)
Selway Falls, Idaho – Drone Shot Readers note: I wrote this in November ’23, but didn’t publish it. My health is better, FWIW, though I’m still likely not to 100%. It’s still accurate, and I’ll...
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