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Self on the Shelf
Derek Parfit, lost memories, and the conceptual incoherence of the unitary self.
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Max Nussenbaum
LBJ and Jimmy Carter Hid Their Real Beliefs to Gain Power. Why Don’t More Politicians Do This?
Pretending to be a racist so you can pass civil rights bills.
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Max Nussenbaum
Edison Didn't Worry About Being Efficient and Neither Should You
Optimizing your way right into oblivion.
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Max Nussenbaum
April 2023
Paul Is the Builders’ Beatle
Why the practical, workhorse McCartney will always be my favorite.
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Max Nussenbaum
The Banality of Real Estate
On what's wrong with real estate people, and on working in an industry you grow to hate.
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Max Nussenbaum
March 2023
Aliens at Both Ends
Which will happen first: will we be visited by aliens, or will we create them?
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Max Nussenbaum
"I Know Nothing About Music"
A review of Rick Rubin's new book on creativity
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Max Nussenbaum
February 2023
Even Cleveland
Or, how I learned to like everywhere
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Max Nussenbaum
The Space Between Careers and Hobbies
In which I coin the term "work polyamory."
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Max Nussenbaum
January 2023
Industrial Musicals and the End of Irony
Featuring songs about bathrooms, being a "great place to work," and the connection between the Daily Show and the QAnon Shaman.
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Max Nussenbaum
One Hundred Years of Internet Solitude
Reflections on a decade of Tinder
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Max Nussenbaum
December 2022
My 2022 Year-End Giving Summary, and the Exciting New Philosophy of Dumb Effective Altruism
I fixed everything wrong with effective altruism so you don't have to.
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Max Nussenbaum
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