Scott Alexander's monthly links post: a curated, opinionated tour of what he read and thought about in February — from psychology papers to book reviews to the kind of weird Twitter threads that don't make it elsewhere.
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The Marginalian (Maria Popova)Maria Popova on what trees know about resilience, surrender, and the deep time of becoming — a meditation on letting go, drawn from a poem that was first read aloud at the Universe in Verse.
Paul GrahamPaul Graham on the difference between essays and other forms of writing, what makes a piece of writing feel like an essay, and why so much published prose today isn't.
The EA mindset is often technocratic. The progress community tends to be much more Hayekian: let lots of people try things and see what works.
Two tribes that both worship technology can't agree on whether it's steered by experts or by markets. That tension is more useful than the consensus it blocks.