Economics

Angst, Ennui, and Guilt in Effective Altruism

There is danger in learning about existential risk. I don’t mean that as some…

Shopping for Happiness

This essay is an edited cross-post from my personal blog, Put A Number On It, in which I aim to change your life using high school math, a bit of rationality and bad puns.

“People who say that money can’t buy happiness just don’t know where to shop.” — One of…

Revealed and Stated Identity

In modern America, many people think of their identity as a thing they own. If I say I’m a Brony, have a…

An Economics of Flexibility

“… mere purposive rationality unaided by such phenomena as art, religion, dream, and the like, is necessarily…

In Defense of Kegan

I find Kegan’s model of psychological development extremely useful. Some folks I know disagree on various grounds. These…