Some mornings the mirror is a customs agent. Papers, please. I present a face I didn't consciously choose and a biography I didn't audition for. Born into a longitude, assigned to a specific moment in history, stamped by the weather of a family system. Our personal this-ness is a miracle that also feels like a prank: here's your DNA, here's your surname, here's your destiny. Good luck.| BEEW
Uncertainty. Do you endure it, bend it to your will, or let it consume you whole? Do you shrink in its presence hoping it'll pass you by and knock on someone else's door?| BEEW
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When World War II ended, the guns and tanks fell silent but the devastation was total. Europe lay in ruins. Warsaw and Stalingrad were obliterated. I...| BEEW
This piece is an update and follow up to my August 26th piece, Looking Sideways: Comments on Markets, Mimetics and the Madness of Crowds.| BEEW
On May 20, 1999, just after five in the morning, my daughter was born.| BEEW
The collapse of shared reality and the fragile possibility of rebuilding it.| BEEW
Corruption, fragility, and unseen incentives shaping our world.| BEEW
The burden of consciousness — intelligence, certainty, sorrow, and relief.| BEEW
Strategy, hierarchy, chance, and control from social games to geopolitics.| BEEW
Several months back, I posted the following to the BEEW : Thiel, as he often does, was referencing his late mentor work on desire. We don't inv...| BEEW
And we have the receipts. We have history's ledger as proof. Run your finger through any century and you'll come upon entries so appalling they read like ...| BEEW
Ask anyone over 40 these days (and far too many under 40), and they'll tell you humanity is doomed. AI will enslave us. \ Society will collapse on us. \...| BEEW
Remember when technology felt like magic? Long before the sleek, genius-staffed Apple Store, before soulless big-box electronics warehouses, before the in...| BEEW
100+ wise words and essential nuggets of life advice| BEEW