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Lying
Are we ever justified in lying?
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
If you could go back in time, you'd be the same schmuck you've always been, only younger.
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The Most Human Human
Trying to make computers pass as human can tell us a good bit about what it means to be human in the first place.
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You Are Not a Gadget
All technologies have an implicit model of what a user is, and the more we use them, the less we can help living up to however much or little they expect of us.
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The Checklist Manifesto
A good checklist can change the world.
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The Outlaw Sea
In a world that's never before been so civilized, there remains something deeply wild about the sea.
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What Technology Wants
We can better understand and orient ourselves to technology if we consider it a living thing.
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Nothing to Envy
When you escape North Korea, many hardships are over, but many more are just beginning.
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Snow Crash
Everything is a virus.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
The virtue of a goal is not to be found as much in its accomplishment as in the direction and meaning it can give a life.
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Samurai William
How William Adams became the first caucasian samurai.
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The Great Gatsby
People can do awful things to get what they want, and they may still turn out worse for getting it.
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War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
War is a narcotic for societies.
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Not all neurological conditions are deficits; some heighten their bearers' brain function in ways beyond our capacity to easily recognize.
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Form Follows Fiasco
Don't let high ideals distract you from the needs of those you're designing for.
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25
Reflections on completing my twenty-fifth year on earth
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A Drifting Life
Our lives comprise many stories at a time, even though we can't always see them all.
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Capitalist Realism
Beware anything that's defended most often by attacking its alternatives.
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When Nietzsche Wept
Obsession is never about the thing you're obsessed with.
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Heroism is much more fraught for real people than it is for superheroes.