Here’s the mid-year roundup. Not counting procedural posts, we’ve had 23 essays in the first six months. The Now Reading page also been updated for the year, check it out for the current state of the ribbonfarm reading radar.
- Free, as in Agent
- Consent of the Surveilled
- The Poor Usability Tell (Jordan)
- Technical Debt of the West (Kevin)
- An Information Age Glossary
- From Cognitive Biases to Institutional Decay (Kartik)
- The Cactus and the Weasel
- Demons by Candelight
- Immortality in the Ocean of Infinite Memories
- Authors and Directors (Sam)
- Love Your Parasites (Jordan)
- Ritual and the Productive Community (Ryan Tanaka)
- The Legibility Tradeoff (Kartik)
- A Life with a View
- Product-Driven versus Customer-Driven
- Replaceability and the Economics of Disequilibrium (Sam)
- Science! and Other Off-the-Wall Études
- Power Gradients and Spherical Cows (Jordan)
- The Logic of Uberreaction
- Saints and Traders: The John Henry Fable Reconsidered
- The Deliberate Practice of Disruption
- The Physics of Stamp Collecting
- Portals and Flags
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