I am seriously a big fan of Laurie Penny. I’m not the biggest fan in terms of being well-read on her. I’ve read her piece on polyamory (and more recently here) as well as her piece on Scott Aaronson (and then Scott Alexander’s response and then a sort of meta response to them both? I…
A mix of poor sleep and other mental health related issues pushed back the release of this article by a day. But that said, despite the increased length of the chapter relative to the last one (29 pages instead of 21) I actually have significantly less to talk about within the context of anti-work. Largely…
When you’re learning about the USSR in school it’s a lot different from when you’re reading about it in a book. I know that seems fairly obvious but sometimes it just hits you that schools skimp out on the smaller details…and sometimes for good reason. There was actually time when I questioned to one extent…
Today we’re gonna finish up chapter four and we start off this sixteen page journey with Levison commenting on how William quit. As if he’s surprised that yelling, lecturing and generally treating poorly someone who doesn’t want to be there anyways would result in anything much less. The ideal thing would have been for Levison to…