#history

• History is a Necessary Exercise in Psychological Distress

  • history
  • virtue

  January 15, 2026

  10 min read

  tl;dr

  history is fun to learn about. but its also a useful mechanism for cultivating the virtues of gratitude and pragmatism within yourself, which in turn serve as proxies for general wellbeing. it makes you grateful because it shows you how much things used to suck, and it makes you pragmatic because it shows you a myriad of failure modes that you can (at least try to) avoid.

  an attempt to reframe yet another one of my consumption habits as secretly virtuous

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  there was only one world war

  April 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM

  • semi-ironic
  • history

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  so why does the great war get to be called “world war i” if every important engagement happened in a few tiny slivers of europe and the middle east? seems a little silly when you compare it to the truly global scale of world war ii. go back to calling it “the great war” and call the second one “the world war”, implying there will be no sequel.

  

• Tremble Before the Mighty S-Curve

  • spicy
  • finance
  • history

  April 25, 2025

  5 min read

  tl;dr

  all exponential curves are actually s-curves. this has... troubling implications (if we are actually currently near the top of the s-curve)

  art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable