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The Invisible Tax of Convenience: Why the Easiest Life Is Not Always the Richest One
Convenience removes effort, but it can also erode agency, skill, discovery, and the texture that makes a life feel rich.
Taste is a technical skill
Taste is not mysterious instinct or expensive preference. It is a trainable ability to notice, name, and choose what makes a piece of work cohere.
Why Busted Minds exists
The long route from a university blog and a Discord server to a technology organization with a clear purpose.
If you have a brain, you’ll be dangerous
Unconventional thinking is not a defect to sand away. Used deliberately, it becomes a source of creativity and change.
The Quiet Luxury of Optionality: Why the Most Valuable Thing Money Buys Is the Ability to Change Your Mind
Money’s deepest value is optionality: the freedom to change direction when better opportunities, priorities, or lives appear.
Three practices for better focus
Attention is not only a matter of willpower. Sleep, movement, deliberate practice, and mindfulness all shape it.
When smart glasses felt one step away
A cleaned-up archive of our 2021 look at Xiaomi’s early smart-glasses concept and the appeal of ambient computing.