For the new year: A rationalist’s guide to manifestation

Advice for Anarchist Post-Docs — Including genuine gems like: 

you can expect the typical PI to be very reluctant to fire you for doing a different mix of research than they expected. They may express displeasure in a variety of ways, but as long as you’re producing results, you’ll probably have a long runway of PI annoyance before any disciplinary action takes place.

I sell onions on the Internet

There should be ‘general managers’ for more of the world’s important problems

Your cheap furniture has a secret — Every part of the supply chain has a story. Or 100 stories.

Why Gen Z Culture Is Basically Medieval China

Remaking Kids by MGMT to Learn Why It’s So Good — A good way to learn about / understand anything. Wait this is just replication again LOL 

Burnout is breaking a sacred pact

15 Scenarios That Could Stun the World in 2026 — (Possible infohazard / hyperstition warning, read with caution.)

Skyrim was weird for my Non-Gamer Wife  — Unexpectedly heartwarming ending.

Who was the Historical Jesus?

Unrevised edition of Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People — Mostly sharing for the censorship angle: 

This website hosts the complete unrevised edition of Dale Carnegie’s masterpiece How to Win Friends and Influence People. … We use the unrevised edition because we believe the revised edition (the revisions were done by Carnegie’s relatives after his death) forcefully makes the language of the book gender neutral and politically correct and takes away from the originality of the work.

Knowledge is Power

(WARNING: includes graphic images of a man performing cranial surgery on himself with a dentist’s drill. DO NOT ATTEMPT AT HOME.) THROUGH THE BLIND HOLE. Amazingly, this story appears to be true.