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Advice for myself
14
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Feb 11, 2024
High-level thoughts on having the most impact with a company
Feb 11, 2024
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Nov 14, 2023
How I use ChatGPT
Nov 14, 2023
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Oct 8, 2023
Going to the beach while the sales team is working
Oct 8, 2023
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Jul 1, 2023
A restaurant in Lahore teaches me the importance of names
Jul 1, 2023
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Jan 22, 2023
Improving my traveling skills
Jan 22, 2023
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Sep 17, 2022
I'm working on high-skill immigration; or, being a doer, not an opinion-haver (at least trying)
Sep 17, 2022
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Jan 24, 2022
Reading can hijack your interests
Jan 24, 2022
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Jan 6, 2022
Non-diverse diversity: The NPR and Sgt. Pepper Problem
Jan 6, 2022
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Feb 21, 2021
On being more idealistic
Feb 21, 2021
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Jan 5, 2021
Some Suggestions for Myself about How to Read
Jan 5, 2021
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Jul 27, 2020
Have high expectations for yourself!
Jul 27, 2020
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Jul 11, 2020
The value of virtue signalling
Jul 11, 2020
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Apr 26, 2020
The Proper Use of Ideology
Apr 26, 2020
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Mar 22, 2020
To Live Would Be An Awfully Big Adventure
Mar 22, 2020
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Economics
12
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Dec 3, 2023
I donated $35 to offset my carbon footprint for this year
Dec 3, 2023
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Oct 23, 2022
Pascal's roulette wheel, or how I won $20
Oct 23, 2022
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Jan 27, 2022
A Complete Taxonomy of Expats in Kenya
Jan 27, 2022
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Sep 26, 2021
Nuclear power and cross-disciplinarity
Sep 26, 2021
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May 20, 2021
How Many Lives Could You Save by Fixing Potholes in Zanzibar?
May 20, 2021
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Apr 5, 2021
Labor is Very Cheap in Kenya
Apr 5, 2021
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Mar 16, 2021
Back of the envelope math on pausing AstraZeneca vaccinations
Mar 16, 2021
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Aug 16, 2020
Goodreads review of The Complacent Class
Aug 16, 2020
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Jun 28, 2020
Key drivers of the growth of global capitalism
Jun 28, 2020
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May 10, 2020
Amartya Sen’s Cohesive View of Development
May 10, 2020
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Apr 13, 2020
How many people do I kill with COVID-19 when I go to get groceries?
Apr 13, 2020
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Mar 28, 2020
Advanced Market Commitments! What Are They Good For?
Mar 28, 2020
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Learnings from Kenya
20
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Nov 30, 2023
On infrastructure challenges in Kenya
Nov 30, 2023
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Oct 16, 2022
What I learned from two mosques in Mombasa
Oct 16, 2022
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Sep 11, 2022
A perfect adventure feat. matatus, flamingoes, and soda ash
Sep 11, 2022
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Apr 3, 2022
How to be cool and impress your girl in Nairobi: Ride a matatu
Apr 3, 2022
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Feb 11, 2022
Sometimes companies want to stay blind
Feb 11, 2022
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Feb 2, 2022
"These Indians are dying like flies"
Feb 2, 2022
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Jan 19, 2022
Reflection on a Year Living in Kenya
Jan 19, 2022
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Nov 28, 2021
Understanding why Kenyan Uber is different from US Uber
Nov 28, 2021
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Oct 31, 2021
Learning from frustrating Uber trips in Nairobi
Oct 31, 2021
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Aug 29, 2021
What I learned biking from the equator to Ethiopia
Aug 29, 2021
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Aug 8, 2021
Which occupations should we hold in higher prestige?
Aug 8, 2021
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Jul 20, 2021
Iowan corn and Kenyan corn
Jul 20, 2021
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Jul 11, 2021
Your Money can’t End Extreme Poverty, but Can Help People in Extreme Poverty
Jul 11, 2021
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Jun 19, 2021
Updated thinking on what type of work I should pursue
Jun 19, 2021
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May 30, 2021
A Trip to the Market with Stan the Mboga Man
May 30, 2021
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May 2, 2021
Some of the most striking things to me from my first 3.58 months in Nairobi
May 2, 2021
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Mar 12, 2021
On American Identity
Mar 12, 2021
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Feb 28, 2021
The entrepreneurship culture in Nairobi
Feb 28, 2021
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Jan 31, 2021
Some of the most striking things to me from my first two weeks in Nairobi
Jan 31, 2021
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Jan 16, 2021
I've Moved to Nairobi!
Jan 16, 2021
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Current events
7
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Nov 6, 2023
My long-awaited opinion on US-Uganda international relations
Nov 6, 2023
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Oct 15, 2023
My conclusions from learning about the Cold War
Oct 15, 2023
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Oct 8, 2022
People in Kenya can now travel to the US in a more reasonable time frame
Oct 8, 2022
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Jul 10, 2022
The US has effectively stopped giving visas to travelers from Kenya
Jul 10, 2022
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Nov 16, 2020
Debunking claims of electoral fraud by Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai
Nov 16, 2020
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Oct 24, 2020
What can the US do about Xinjiang?
Oct 24, 2020
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Jun 6, 2020
Observations from last night's West Des Moines Black Lives Matter protest
Jun 6, 2020
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Learnings from travel
4
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History
6
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Aug 27, 2023
Why the US dropped atom bombs on Japan (more Oppenheimer context)
Aug 27, 2023
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Aug 14, 2023
Some Oppenheimer context on science and the military (no spoilers)
Aug 14, 2023
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Jul 15, 2023
How did China's life expectancy increase?
Jul 15, 2023
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Jun 29, 2023
"We just need a good leader"
Jun 29, 2023
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Apr 10, 2023
The Past is Just a Foreign Country
Apr 10, 2023
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Aug 17, 2022
Anti-eugenics research in 1930s Iowa
Aug 17, 2022
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Philosophy
14
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Aug 6, 2023
Some thinking on charity interventions vs. direct cash donation
Aug 6, 2023
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Apr 16, 2023
Beauty in Physics and Paul Dirac
Apr 16, 2023
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May 2, 2022
A little bit of chicken fried to share - EA Christians blog post
May 2, 2022
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Sep 29, 2021
I write on the Effective Altruism forum about the importance of representativeness for long-termism
Sep 29, 2021
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Mar 8, 2021
We don’t expect people to have good reasons for their beliefs; or, a Footnote that got Out of Hand
Mar 8, 2021
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Nov 30, 2020
Using percentages in the face of uncertainty
Nov 30, 2020
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Aug 9, 2020
Mencius on how morality isn’t just following rules
Aug 9, 2020
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Apr 5, 2020
On Competition
Apr 5, 2020
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Mar 15, 2020
From Gödel -> Faith
Mar 15, 2020
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Feb 17, 2020
Two Ways of Looking at Moral Rules
Feb 17, 2020
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Feb 8, 2020
Venmo: The Scourge of Reciprocity
Feb 8, 2020
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Feb 1, 2020
Visions of Human Potential; or, One Factor in Why People Disagree
Feb 1, 2020
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Jan 18, 2020
Some Thoughts on Journalism
Jan 18, 2020
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Jan 11, 2020
St. Paul was Just Some Guy so He's Not Always Right
Jan 11, 2020
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Kapu
2
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Other
2
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Immigration
5
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Jan 28, 2023
Update on high-skill immigration work
Jan 28, 2023
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Oct 8, 2022
People in Kenya can now travel to the US in a more reasonable time frame
Oct 8, 2022
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Sep 25, 2022
How do people enter the US to live there?
Sep 25, 2022
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Sep 17, 2022
I'm working on high-skill immigration; or, being a doer, not an opinion-haver (at least trying)
Sep 17, 2022
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Jul 10, 2022
The US has effectively stopped giving visas to travelers from Kenya
Jul 10, 2022
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Art
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Jun 12, 2022
Top Gun: Maverick is about a weird kind of military pride
Jun 12, 2022
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Dec 26, 2021
How Do You Live? - a 1930s Japanese YA book about progress
Dec 26, 2021
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Dec 12, 2021
What I’ve learned about different kinds of African music
Dec 12, 2021
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Nov 7, 2021
Tenet rules
Nov 7, 2021
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Aug 15, 2021
A boy and girl transcend reality by falling with style
Aug 15, 2021
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Apr 18, 2021
Paul McCartney is Cool
Apr 18, 2021
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Oct 18, 2020
What I Think About When I Think About Music
Oct 18, 2020
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May 25, 2020
BlacKKKlansman’s use of “sarcastic” cross-cutting
May 25, 2020
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Mar 8, 2020
What are the moral teachings of The Good Place? Part II [spoilers abound]
Mar 8, 2020
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Feb 29, 2020
What are the moral teachings of The Good Place? Part I [spoilers abound]
Feb 29, 2020
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Jan 4, 2020
The Art of the Digitally Socialized
Jan 4, 2020