A reading guide

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Eight essays about looking across boundaries, making useful progress, and choosing how to live.

At the seams

Computer Science and Psychology? How does that work?

The foundational essay for this site: important questions rarely stay inside one discipline, and the seams between fields are where new explanations become possible.

The interconnected mess of it all

Why dividing life into neat categories can hide the whole—and why work, ideas, and ordinary life remain entangled.

Alexander von Humboldt: the first Solarpunk

Humboldt connected careful observation with beauty and imagination, treating nature as a web of relationships that people can learn to understand and protect.

Making things work

Boring Innovation

Most durable progress is incremental: people improve familiar systems, connect them well, and keep going long after the dramatic announcement.

Avoid negative-sum games

A practical argument for cooperation and value creation—and for recognizing the games that make everybody poorer.

Tales To Inspire Climate Solutions, not Tales To Condemn

Constructive visions can move people toward action more effectively than stories built only around fear and condemnation.

Living deliberately

Optimize for momentum

Low friction, iteration, and feedback make it easier to sustain worthwhile work, health, and curiosity.

Get ahead by not shooting yourself in the foot

Protect what can compound, avoid preventable losses, and spend attention on the decisions that matter most.