In early 2022, Sara and I got a call from Rebel Wisdom. They had a problem: their community, despite being unusually bright, dangerously curious, and predisposed to that greatest of libertarian vices: solipsism, didn’t really know how to talk to each other. Their community was founded...

Feedback Loops     Feedback is invaluable You are allergic to it, and you can treat the allergy     The person you identify as and the person that the world experiences are not the same person. For every person in your life—every person you’ve interacted with—there is an alternate version of yo...

and how to make it more likely that they will Anytime I create an event and people don’t show up, I have a little voice in my brain that says: “It was me, wasn’t it? I didn’t create a good enough event. I don’t have enough social cred. I have, in some way, secretly offended all of these people an...