Another year comes to an end. If you're reading this you might know that I'm currently writing a book. After a few years writing 100+ essays on this blog, some of them achieving some modest success, I received a grant from the Mercatus Institute at George Mason University in the middle of 2022. They were … Continue reading After 2024: On the Cusp
Happy new 2024 everyone 🙂 It feels weird to write a summary of 2023 since my archive contains exactly 0 posts from 2023. It looks like this place is a ghost town by now, never to come alive again. Maybe that's true, in that I'll probably move to Substack to keep writing when my book … Continue reading 2023 Review: Book
I sum up the year and give an overview of the contents of the book I'm writing.
Building on two articles by Holden Karnoffsky, I argue that utopian fiction fails because it's trying to depict something impossible. Read more (5 min, 1700 words).
Four classes of forces shape our selves, which do we think of as the most important? It varies, and if we miss this we have a hard time properly understanding what others are saying. Read more (11 min, 2800 words).
Saying that "language evolves" is no enough to dismiss complaints about the misuse of words, since "language erodes" is just as valid, but without the suggestion of progress. Read more (9 min, 2300 words).
People experience the nature of their wants, needs and desires very differently, and when they generalize the specifics of their own psychology onto everyone else it has a profound effect on their political beliefs. Read more (13 min, 3200 words).
In which I announce that I'm going to write a book. Read more (3 min, 700 words).
I discuss seven overly ambitious projects I idly fantasize about being able to complete. Read more(20 min, 4900 words).
I describe a few words in Swedish i find myself wanting to use in English, for example when blogging.
Read more (8 min, 2000 words).
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