progress
Dyson Sphere
capture all the energy of the sun and progress humanity to a type 2 civilization
Space Elevator
creating the infrastructure to reduce the cost of getting material into space
AI Revolution
WaitButWhy lays out the road to superintelligience and the singularity
Neuralink
Elon's brain machine interface venture to have humanity BECOME the AI
Post-Scarcity
My thoughts on humanity's transition through socieoeconomic stages to achieve a post-scarcity economy
Oil creates a ceiling
Our economic model demands progress to avoid collapse. Oil creates an unavoidable paradox
old government
Iroquois Confederacy
history of the governance structure of the Haudenosaunee
Bureaucracy in Celopatra's Egypt
The absolute totaltarian state of late Egypt
Cursus Honorum
Rome's political innovation was to put young men's ambition and ruthlessness to benefit the state
How Rome Maintained Peace
The systems of governance and local rule to facilitate peace throughout the empire
How Rome managed pandemics
Pandemics and diseases have been significantly worse throughout history without modern medicine
Rise of Carthage
Rome's rival in the mediterranean built on the back of trade, merchants, and merceneries until the Punic Wars
history
Ceasar Marches on Rome (49BCE)
Alea iacta est ("the die is cast") - The politics leading up to Ceasar's crossing of the Rubicon
Battle of Carrhae (53 BCE)
The fall of Crassis, the richest man of Rome (ego & greed)
Saturnalia (Roman Holiday)
A fascinating annual roman holiday to mock social hierarchy, celebrate liberty, and role reversal
Bronze Age Collapse
How did a robust international trade network and large cities collapse in a generation?
Alcibiades
Most attractive and interesting man in the world who banged everyone on all sides and changed history
philosophy
Diogenes
When Alexander The Great, conqueror of the known world, asked what he could do for Diogenes said "move, you're in my sunlight"
Optimistic Nihilism
If nothing matters, then it's up to us to create the meaning and purpose