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The Positive-Sum Signal

Positive-sum games are recognizable by a specific signal — the people inside them behave differently than people in zero-sum games.

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My Top 10 Blog Posts

1. Ambition 2. What I Learned From Friends & Family Fundraising 3. The Future of Loving Grace 4. Money 5. The Bugsy Way 6. Nature vs Nurture 7. How I Won $16k in a Poker Tournament 8. Root Level Deflation 9. Elves 10. Brushing Teeth

After the Bliss Attractor

There is a thought experiment that asks us to consider, what if every single action causes a split reality to branch off, where the opposite thing happened? Perhaps you read some other blog post today rather than mine. And perhaps in 2019 I turned right instead of left at a

Starting Over At Age 30

I have had a lot of adventures in my life, but getting stuck in Sin City was certainly one of the worst. Since I was 9 years old, I have not felt so vulnerable and dependent on mysterious forces to bring me back into a sane world. I even prayed

Stuck in Sin City

I was recently held captive and sedated in Las Vegas for seven days, plus or minus a few, under 24/7 florescent lights where the staff would chatter and the TV played incessantly. The "emergency" room was crowded with farting homeless, including myself on a cot in the