This week I apparently bookmarked things that make me think, which is frankly exhausting but here we are.
Protection or Free Trade – Online Library of Liberty
Classic economic text on free trade vs. protectionism. It’s the kind of thing that sounds incredibly dry until you realize these debates are literally shaping global politics right now. The Online Library of Liberty is a treasure trove of this stuff.
Shrimp Welfare Project – FarmKind
Yes, this is real. Someone is seriously working on shrimp welfare, and honestly, good for them. If you’re going to have effective altruism, might as well go all the way down to crustaceans. The fact that this exists says something profound about human moral expansion.
101 Rules of Effective Living
Life advice condensed into bite-sized rules. Some are profound, others are obvious, most are somewhere in between. It’s the kind of thing you bookmark thinking you’ll refer back to it, then forget about until your next browser cleanup.
TikTok is a Time Bomb – The Prism
A deep dive into TikTok’s potential as an information warfare tool. Whether you buy the argument or not, it’s a fascinating look at how social media platforms can shape culture and attention spans. Makes you wonder what we’re optimizing for as a society.
Sometimes the internet makes you think. Other times it makes you wish you could stop thinking. Today it’s doing both.