Eleanor Pahl is a Podcast Intern at Coindesk, freelance crypto journalist, and music enthusiast. If you are interested in anything music or crypto, check her out at https://eleanor.ghost.io/
I took a voluntary layoff from Google ~200 days ago. I have split my time between software, literature, and governance. Previous articles: One Week of Unemployment Two Weeks of Unemployment One Month Out 136 Days of Unemployment These first 6 months were part sabbatical, part work. I am officially back
Suppose we have reached endgame capitalism. Suppose we have colonized the worlds as in Ender's Game. How should we manage our stock portfolio? Investing in many uncorrelated assets de-risks your position. In 2026, there are not enough sufficiently uncorrelated assets for complete de-risking. In Ender's Game,
The opposite of freedom is oppression. Man is born into a state of freedom. Through a man’s interactions with the world, he finds himself oppressed or restricted in ways that limit this natural freedom. Man ought to introduce government in accordance with the principle that a society is only
Yesterday I read Code and Let Live, an article covering fly.io's new(ish) Sprites offering. Sprites (sprites.dev) offers persistent VMs that feel like ephemeral VMs—offering ~1s latency to fresh shells, state snapshotting, and a CLI that makes remote code execution a breeze. I created an