Archive - Everything Is Bullshit

Money Is Bullshit

There comes a time in your life when you get high and have the following thought:

Jul 8 •

June 2024

Is Effective Altruism Bullshit?

Effective altruism is “a research field and practical community that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice.”

Jun 11 •

May 2024

Mediocrity as an Existential Risk

Warning: this one's a bummer

May 13 •

April 2024

Manufactured niceness

From corporate philanthropy to woke capitalism

Apr 22 •

March 2024

A Year of Bullshit

One year ago today, I started Everything Is Bullshit.

Mar 14 •

February 2024

Bullshit Links - February 2024

Not another list of links! Don’t worry, if you’d rather read an essay, I recently wrote a guest post for one of my favorite substacks, Optimally…

Feb 27 •

January 2024

Incentives Are Everything

In a 2007 interview on The Colbert Report, the psychologist Steven Pinker got ambushed with the following question: “How does the brain work? Five words…

Jan 22 •

December 2023

Your Fear of Mortality is Bullshit

There’s a story that smart, literary people like to tell about The Human Experience. The story goes something like this:

Dec 21, 2023 •

November 2023

Opinions Are Bullshit

We all have them. We all love to express them. We all wish that everyone else would stop giving them to us because we didn’t ask for them. Some are held…

Nov 28, 2023 •

October 2023

Darwin the Cynic

What does “cynicism” mean? According to google, it means: “An inclination to believe that people are motivated purely by self-interest.” Hm. So does…

Oct 24, 2023 •

September 2023

You Actually Want to Suffer

Suffering. What a terrible thing. Pain, grief, heartbreak, humiliation—they’re the worst. If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that suffering…

Sep 11, 2023 •

August 2023

Bullshit Links - August 2023

Had a great conversation with Chris Williamson on the Modern Wisdom podcast. We talked about status games, happiness, the difference between happiness…

Aug 18, 2023 •

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