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Review: The Creative Act
Review of The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
2 mins ago
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Sami Makelainen
Review: don't burn anyone at the stake today
Review of Don't Burn Anyone at the Stake Today (and other lessons from history about living through an information crisis) by Naomi Alderman
Apr 6
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Sami Makelainen
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March 2026
Review: The Book of Memory
Review of The Book of Memory: Or, How to Live Forever by Mark Rowlands
Mar 30
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Sami Makelainen
My AI ≠ Your AI
How the same technology becomes a thousand different tools and why "it depends" is the only honest answer to any question about AI.
Mar 26
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Sami Makelainen
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Review: Pilot Competency and Capability
Review of Pilot Competency and Capability: Responsibilities, Strategy and Command by Steven D. Green
Mar 21
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Sami Makelainen
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Review: Intelligent Disobedience
Review of Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You're Told to Do Is Wrong by Ira Chaleff
Mar 15
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Sami Makelainen
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Review: Knowledge, Reality, and Value
Review of Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy by Michael Huemer
Mar 7
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Sami Makelainen
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Review: The Shortest History of Australia
Review of The Shortest History of Australia by Mark McKenna
Mar 2
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Sami Makelainen
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February 2026
The Futures Dramaturg
GenAI for foresight has crossed a threshold. The profession now needs to cross one too.
Feb 22
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Sami Makelainen
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Review: Seeing Like a State
Review of Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
Feb 20
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Sami Makelainen
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Review: Could Should Might Don't
Review of Could Should Might Don’t: How We Think About the Future by Nick Foster
Feb 12
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Sami Makelainen
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The Grace Margin
Why the world runs on exceptions and what happens when we automate them away
Feb 5
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Sami Makelainen
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