![if nobody is coming to save you, that probably means nobody is coming to stop you either](/help-you-stop-you.jpeg)

# Town Hall #29: Revolution

## Writings

- [Fear in Four Dimensions](/fear-4d)
- [A Review of Grand Theft Auto XXIIV](/gta23)
- ★ [You cannot grow a pumpkin.](/pumpkin)
- [1099 contractors can earn ~7% more by reporting their expenses.](/expenses-000)
- [USD by the numbers](/money-supply)
- [Plan Recurring Vacations With Friends](/20260519)
- [Freezing Your Cake](/20260518)
- [I built a crappy video podcast player](/telecasts-000)
- [waves & particles](/waves)
- ★ [Slap: Fun Cat Lang... with a Borrow Checker?](/slap-000)
- [Dear Aliens](/dear-aliens-000)
- ★ [How To Not Pay Your Taxes](/succession-000)
- [Mercury Personal Banking: First Impressions](/mercury-000)
- [Explore Chaotic Autonomous Systems In My Game Prototype](/last-mile-000)
- [Lil' Fun Langs' Guts](/scrapscript-001)
- [My Phone Will Spam You If I Fail To Exercise By 3PM](/tttl-000)
- ★ [Math Milestones](/kakm)
- [Lil' Fun Langs](/scrapscript-000)
- [Mysterious NSFW "Grok" Notification from Google App](/google-grok-notif)
- ★
  [Every Conversation is a Backrub and/or a Helicopter in a Puddle](/conversing)
- [Neither Fan Nor Frond](/palm-free)
- [Happy Belated New Year](/belated-new-year)
- [REWARD](/reward)
- [Golfing Is Not Rowing](/golf-vs-rowing)
- [Affordances are Inconceivable](/no-affordance)
- ★ [A Brief History of Roombas with Fart Spray](/roombas-with-fart-spray)
- [How To Win Titular Metagames](/how-to-title)
- [Emoji Book Synopses](/synopsi)
- ★ [210 IQ is not enough](/iq-not-enough)
- [AI Minus Vagina](/ai-minus-vagina)
- [Placebo Emporium: 2025 Annual Shareholder Letter](/placebo)
- [Be More Impolite](/impolite)

## Projects

|                                                    |                              |
| -------------------------------------------------: | ---------------------------- |
|                           [ding](https://ding.bar) | minimalist forum             |
|              [telecasts](https://telecast.company) | video podcast player         |
|                                  [slap](/slap-000) | linear concat lang           |
|                          [Khan Academy map](/kakm) | math milestones              |
|                   [dirt.cloud](https://dirt.cloud) | minimal FoundationDB hosting |
| [AdBoost](https://github.com/surprisetalk/AdBoost) | unreclaim your attention     |

## Books

|       |                                                                               |
| ----: | :---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| ★★★★★ | _A Wizard of Earthsea_ :: Ursula K. Le Guin                                   |
| ★★★★★ | _The New Me_ :: Halle Butler                                                  |
| ★★★★★ | _Childhood's End_ :: Arthur C. Clarke                                         |
| ★★★★★ | _House of Suns_ :: Alastair Reynolds                                          |
|  ★★★★ | _Thinking in Bets_ :: Annie Duke                                              |
|  ★★★★ | _Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory_ :: Raphael Bob-Waksberg |
|  ★★★★ | _Heart of Darkness_ :: Joseph Conrad                                          |
|  ★★★★ | _The Secret Life of Groceries_ :: Benjamin Lorr                               |
|  ★★★★ | _Careless People_ :: Sarah Wynn-Williams                                      |
|  ★★★★ | _The Decadent Society_ :: Ross Douthat                                        |
|  ★★★★ | _Beginning of Infinity_ :: David Deutsch                                      |
|  ★★★★ | _Sphere_ by Michael Chrichton                                                 |
|  ★★★★ | _Blindsight_ :: Peter Watts                                                   |
|   ★★★ | _The Crowfolk_ :: Mark Stay                                                   |
|   ★★★ | _Think Faster, Talk Smarter_ :: Matt Abrahams                                 |
|   ★★★ | _Trick Mirror_ :: Jia Tolentino                                               |
|   ★★★ | _I Deliver Parcels in Beijing_ :: Hu Anyan                                    |
|   ★★★ | _Prey_ :: Michael Chrichton                                                   |
|   ★★★ | _Understanding Power_ :: Noam Chomsky                                         |
|   ★★★ | _The Deficit Myth_ :: Stephanie Kelton                                        |
|   ★★★ | _How to Hide an Empire_ :: Daniel Immerwahr                                   |
|   ★★★ | _Oranges_ :: John MacPhee                                                     |
|   ★★★ | _Dawn_ :: Octavia Butler                                                      |
|   ★★★ | _Uncommon Carriers_ :: John MacPhee                                           |
|   ★★★ | _The Man Who Broke Capitalism_ :: David Gelles                                |
|   ★★★ | _Version Control_ :: Dexter Palmer                                            |
|   ★★★ | _Meditations for Mortals_ :: Oliver Burkeman                                  |
|   ★★★ | _Matrix_ :: Lauren Groff                                                      |
|   ★★★ | _The Wizard and the Prophet_ :: Charles C. Mann                               |
|   ★★★ | _Breakneck_ :: Dan Wang                                                       |
|    ★★ | _Think Big, Act Small_ :: Jason Jennings                                      |
|    ★★ | _First Love, Last Rites_ :: Ian McEwan                                        |
|    ★★ | _The Daydreamer_ :: Ian McEwan                                                |
|    ★★ | _Normal People_ :: Sally Rooney                                               |
|    ★★ | _Kindred_ :: Octavia Butler                                                   |
|    ★★ | _The Hard Thing About Hard Things_ :: Ben Horowitz                            |
|    ★★ | _Eragon_ :: Christopher Paolini                                               |
|     ♡ | _Useful Not True_ :: Derek Sivers                                             |
|     ♡ | _The Infinite Library_ :: Alexander Wales                                     |
|     ♡ | _Building Strongholds_ :: Alexander Wales                                     |
|     ♡ | _Trust and Consequences_ :: Alexander Wales                                   |
|     ♡ | _Through Adversity_ :: Alexander Wales                                        |
|     ? | _Wittgenstein's Mistress_ :: David Markson                                    |
|     ? | _Middle C_ :: William H. Gass                                                 |
|     ? | _Vellum_ :: Hal Duncan                                                        |