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Baseball’s ruined, here’s how to save it

posted: November 2, 2025

tl;dr: A pragmatic approach for avoiding the 2027 MLB lockout...

Book review: The Best Short Stories 2024: The O. Henry Prize Winners, ed. by Amor Towles

posted: October 26, 2025

tl;dr: An above-average collection whose overall narrative arc I was unable to detect...

Book review: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz

posted: September 21, 2025

tl;dr: A portrait of the artist as a young man wildly out of sync with his culture and heritage...

Book review: The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson

posted: September 6, 2025

tl;dr: A fictional account of life in North Korea that seems all too true...

Book review: The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI, by Ray Kurzweil

posted: July 5, 2025

tl;dr: An AI virus risk worth taking?...

Movie review: Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

posted: June 21, 2025

tl;dr: It’s Tom Cruise’s world, we all just live in it...

Book review: An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions, by David Zweig

posted: May 21, 2025

tl;dr: Every Generation COVID kid, and everyone who cares about them, should read this book to understand how badly they were screwed...

Book review: Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

posted: May 11, 2025

tl;dr: Taleb’s iconoclastic thoughts on investing and other areas of life...

Book review: Broken Money: Why Our Financial System is Failing Us and How We Can Make It Better, by Lyn Alden

posted: April 6, 2025

tl;dr: A somewhat more level-headed view of Bitcoin than you get from the Bitcoin maxis...

Is the Bitcoin network secure enough to launch the U.S.A.’s nuclear missiles?

posted: April 13, 2025

tl;dr: No it isn’t, and that has implications for a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve...