Posts about things I think programmers should know about the humanities and social sciences.
| 2026-06-18 | AI Happens |
| 2026-06-17 | How Change Happens |
| 2026-06-16 | Regulation Works |
| 2026-06-15 | What We Owe the Future |
| 2026-06-14 | More Analogies |
| 2026-06-13 | Who Gets What and Why |
| 2026-06-12 | Privacy, Power, and the Self |
| 2026-06-11 | When the Model Is the Harm |
| 2026-06-10 | More Psychology |
| 2026-06-09 | How We Got Here |
| 2026-06-09 | A Little Psychology |
| 2026-06-08 | Sex and Drugs and Guns and Code Restart |
| 2026-05-21 | Enshittification |
| 2026-05-20 | Women's Work |
| 2026-05-20 | Setting the Standard |
| 2026-05-20 | SDGC Glossary |
| 2026-05-20 | Why Don't You Just… |
| 2026-05-19 | Who Are You? |
| 2026-05-18 | The Construction of Race |
| 2026-05-18 | The Representation Feedback Loop |
| 2026-05-17 | Not So Selfish After All |
| 2026-05-17 | Bullshit Jobs and Parkinson's Law |
| 2026-05-17 | The Expanding Circle |
| 2026-05-17 | The Creation of Money |
| 2026-05-17 | In a Crisis |
| 2026-05-15 | Fascism Plain and Simple |
| 2026-05-15 | Technofascism |
| 2026-05-14 | Regulatory Capture |
| 2026-05-14 | Manufacturing Obedience |
| 2026-05-14 | Manufacturing Preferences |
| 2026-05-13 | The Corporation as Psychopath |
| 2026-05-12 | Behavioral Economics |
| 2026-05-12 | We're All Family Here |
| 2026-05-12 | Keeping Up With Everybody |
| 2026-05-11 | Ransom as a Business Model |
| 2026-05-11 | A Note on LLMs |
| 2026-05-10 | Big Tech is Like the Yakuza |
| 2026-05-10 | Big Tech is Like Multi-Level Marketing |
| 2026-05-10 | Big Tech is Like Scientology |
| 2026-05-09 | Land to the Landless |
| 2026-05-09 | Cleaning up the Rivers |
| 2026-05-09 | Cooperatives |
| 2026-05-09 | Big Tech is Like Pro Wrestling |
| 2026-05-08 | Taming Tobacco |
| 2026-05-08 | Lessons from Ozone |
| 2026-05-08 | Unsafe at Any Algorithm |
| 2026-05-07 | Eight Hours and After |
| 2026-05-06 | International Tax Avoidance |
| 2026-05-06 | Algorithmic Criminal Justice |
| 2026-05-06 | Public Subsidy, Private Profit |
| 2026-05-05 | Moral Panics and the Video Game Debate |
| 2026-05-05 | The Psychology of Building Harmful Things |
| 2026-05-05 | Philanthrocapitalism |
| 2026-05-04 | Free Speech and Hate Speech |
| 2026-05-03 | Other Kinds of Firms |
| 2026-05-02 | The Invention of Intellectual Property |
| 2026-05-02 | The Evolution of Morality |
| 2026-05-01 | A Short History of Fads |
| 2026-05-01 | Big Tech is Like a Danwei |
| 2026-05-01 | Labor and Passion |
| 2026-04-29 | Pornography, Obscenity, and the Limits of Regulation |
| 2026-04-29 | Guns in America |
| 2026-04-29 | The Myth of Meritocracy |
| 2026-04-29 | Big Tech is Like a Department Store |
| 2026-04-28 | The Differential Legalization of Pleasure |
| 2026-04-28 | Big Tech is Like the Penny Press |
| 2026-04-28 | The Geography of Industrial Harm |
| 2026-04-27 | Big Tech is Like Standard Oil |
| 2026-04-27 | Big Tech is Like the Sharecropping System |
| 2026-04-26 | Big Tech is Like the Enclosure Movement |
| 2026-04-25 | Cognitive Pollution Revisited |
| 2026-04-25 | Big Tech is Like the Beauty Industry |
| 2026-04-25 | Why Discrimination Persists |
| 2026-04-25 | Big Tech is Like a Fast Food Franchise |
| 2026-04-25 | Software Taboos |
| 2026-04-24 | Big Tech is Like the Stasi |
| 2026-04-23 | Big Tech as Payola |
| 2026-04-22 | Big Tech as the Medieval Church |
| 2026-04-21 | Big Tech is Soviet |
| 2026-04-20 | Big Tech is Like a Long Firm Fraud |
| 2026-04-19 | Big Tech is Like the Cocaine Cartels |
| 2026-04-18 | Changing Minds |
| 2026-04-13 | A Bibliography |
| 2026-04-08 | Lessons from Business |
| 2026-04-08 | Lessons from Crisis |
| 2026-04-08 | Lessons from Disaster Management |
| 2026-04-08 | Lessons from MAID |
| 2026-03-08 | Cognitive Pollution |
| 2024-11-10 | What Worked Last Time? |
| 2024-01-17 | The First Six Questions |
| 2023-12-29 | Reading List |
| 2023-12-12 | Ultracrepidarian |
| 2023-12-11 | Meetings, Interruptions, and Power |
| 2023-11-22 | Seeing Like a Student |
| 2023-11-01 | How to Reach the Unconverted? |
| 2023-01-08 | Somewhere Between Hobbes and Wishful Thinking |
| 2022-12-28 | Reading List |
| 2021-08-24 | Textbooks (Alone) Are Not Enough |
| 2019-12-30 | Method, Motive, and Opportunity |
| 2017-11-17 | Freakonomics, But For Good |
| 2016-11-13 | Stuff That Actually Matters |