The standard history of the Green Revolution is a triumphalist one: Norman Borlaug, the selfless agronomist, develops miracle wheat, ships it to a hungry postcolonial world, and “saves a billion lives.” It is a story that flatters the technocratic imagination. Yet Borlaug himself, in his 1970 Nobel acceptance speech, refused the role of savior. The […]

Introduction: The Myth of the Problem-Solver Technology is often celebrated as humanity’s greatest problem-solving tool. Every generation is told that new inventions will make life easier, eliminate inefficiencies, and improve society. From smartphones to artificial intelligence, technological progress is usually framed as a steady march toward a better future. Yet this narrative overlooks an uncomfortable […]

Introduction In today’s world, YOLO — “You Only Live Once” has become a popular phrase. People often use it as a reason to take risks, spend money, or do whatever they want without thinking about the consequences. Although enjoying life is important, YOLO can sometimes encourage careless decisions. A better philosophy is YODO — “You […]

Introduction The United States has accumulated a national debt that has reached tens of trillions of dollars, raising concerns about the country’s long-term fiscal outlook and the rising cost of interest payments. At the same time, private wealth in the United States has grown to historic levels and is concentrated among a relatively small share […]

Preface On Intelligence, Incentives, and the Stars We Follow This is not a story about an artificial intelligence that decides humans are obsolete. We have been told that story many times—the machine that rises up, the weapons that turn against their creators, the digital god that decides to remake the world in cold, logical perfection. […]

Introduction The image presents a thought-provoking statement: “A lot of mental health issues disappear when bills are paid, rent is secure, and the fridge is full. Peace is expensive. And pretending money doesn’t affect mental health is privilege.” This message emphasizes the powerful connection between financial stability and psychological well-being. While mental health is influenced […]

Using the framework from “Abundance Already Exists: Artificial Scarcity, Perpetual Consumption, and the Politics of a Post-Abundance World” to interrogate a provocative but flawed argument. A few hours ago, an essay by Yishan (https://x.com/yishan/status/2092041265781277007) went viral—its author confessing that they “really didn’t expect this to get as much circulation as it did.” The core idea […]

Core Thesis The essay argues that humanity already possesses extraordinary productive capacity to meet everyone’s basic needs, but scarcity persists not primarily due to technological limitations, but because of social institutions, economic incentives, and ownership structures that create and maintain artificial scarcity. The transition to a post-abundance society is therefore not merely an engineering problem […]

PostgreSQL’s jsonb type is incredibly useful when you need flexible, semi-structured data. But a common question eventually comes up: If I store a value inside JSONB, how do I sort by it efficiently? For example, suppose we have: And the data column contains: We can sort by age like this: This works perfectly. But on […]

Why Governments Must Be Forbidden from Borrowing The Unquestioned Assumption That Destroys Nations Modern governments possess a power that would have horrified the architects of democracy: the authority to spend money they do not have, issue obligations against citizens not yet born, and leave the bill for generations that had no voice in the decision. […]