Food For Thought
The articles, blogs, and polemics linked on this page are ones I've long considered worth preserving and sharing with more people.
A mirror/mention here is not a personal endorsement of the author(s). It is also not a personal endorsement of any or all of the ideas in what they wrote.
If you find anything here abhorrent or "problematic", you must not hold that against me.
Many of the ideas in what I've linked here are arguably incompatible with each other, objectively speaking.
So, if you send me hate mail or try to lambast this blog on some banal, outrage-fueled social media site for any or all of the links below, I can only assume you've either not understood them, or most depressingly, haven't even read them.
I have chosen each of these because to me, the conversations about them are not over, or they have been forgotten and never should have been. They have challenged previously held biases and mental models for me, and I hope they do the same for you.
This list is about food for thought. I invite you to think.
[ business ]
- Bullshit Jobs | David Graeber
- Read this before our next meeting | Al Pittampalli
- The Failed Commodification Of Technical Work | Lucidity
[ hacking ]
[ privacy ]
- Privacy, human rights, and Tornado Cash | Molly White
- The Scam of Age Verification | Pornbiz
- Why Privacy & Security Matter | The New Oil
[ security ]
- Passkeys: A Shattered Dream | Firstyear
- Revisiting Phishing Simulations | Matt Hand/SpecterOps
- Security Distilled: Building a First-Principles Approach to Understanding Security | Nathan Davis
[ information ]
- Crypto Anarchist Manifesto | Timothy C. May
- Cypherpunk Manifesto | Eric Hughes
- The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy | Sarah Lamdan, Jason M. Schultz, Michael Weinberg, Claire Woodcock
- The Guerilla Open Access Manifesto | Aaron Swartz
- The Right to Read | Richard Stallman
[ philosophy ]
- Bayes' Theorem, Clearly Explained with Visualization | Khuyen Tran
- Eight O’Clock in the Morning | Ray Nelson
- End the Phone-Based Childhood Now | Jonathan Haidt
- Harrison Bergeron | Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Industrial Society and Its Future | Theodore Kaczynski
- Long on zaxlebax | R.McElroy
- Love Letter to America | Tomas Schuman (a.k.a. Yuri Bezmenov)
- Perceptions Are Not Reality: What Americans Get Wrong About Police Violence | Manhattan Institute
- Society of the Spectacle | Guy Debord
- Politics and the English Language | George Orwell
- The Bedrock Principle | Greg Lukianoff
- The Repugnant Conclusion | Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The Paranoid Style in American Politics | Richard Hofstadter
- The Need to Read | Paul Graham
- War Is a Racket | Smedley Butler
- What is Fascism? | George Orwell