Rapid Fire

Basically a blog where I try to do philosophy outside.

Terraforming Mars and Intergenerational Politics

If I’ve seen you in the past month or so, I’ve probably talked you into playing Terraforming Mars, currently the 6th highest ranked board...

Being a Coach

I don’t love talk of ‘smart’ or ‘high IQ’ basketball. I got to coach a youth basketball team recently, and it was awesome. For a lot of...

I'm on Twitch now

So here's an argument: In Utopia, our practical problems would be solved. (There'd be nothing we had to do.) But if we sat around all...

Puzzles and Problems

I’ve been thinking a lot about the difference between puzzles and problems and I need your help to figure it out. Say you’re solving a...

Writing with ChatGPT

Let's talk about games. Do you know the difference between purposes and goals? The goal of a game is the target we aim at during the...

This one's not really about chess

There are 255,168 possible games of tic-tac-toe and they’re all boring. If both sides play perfectly, tic-tac-toe is a draw. And playing...

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