Archive - Ben Parry's Newsletter

Cities are the Atomic Unit of Statecraft

Our political philosophy and practice must start and end with our cities

Mar 19 •

January 2024

2023 Annual Letter

Year in review and aims for 2024

Jan 7 •

December 2023

The Transformative Power of Tragedy

What does it mean to be high-agency?

Dec 3, 2023 •

November 2023

Choosing Names, Shaping Worlds

Selecting your terms wisely is a sacred act

Nov 7, 2023 •

October 2023

The Irrationality of Marc Andressen

If you must be irrational at least be coherent

Oct 28, 2023 •

July 2023

Making our ideas real

There are ways to be productive even if you have a laptop job

Jul 22, 2023 •

Travelogue 🇸🇬 🇭🇰

Two observations from some time spent in a couple of the world's great cities

Jul 15, 2023 •

April 2023

The Homunculus Fallacy Revisited

We cannot reduce the scope of our lives without fundamentally diminishing who we are

Apr 29, 2023 •

First Principles Tradition

We will never recover our ultimate concern using a 'view from nowhere'

Apr 15, 2023 •

Culture but for want of a plan

No essay this week

Apr 8, 2023 •

Interstellar and Our Future with the Robots

The challenge of AI means we must be willing to look beyond ourselves

Apr 1, 2023 •

March 2023

Worship is the Antidote to Ideology

We need to relate to something more than our pre-conceived notions of the world if we wish to change them

Mar 25, 2023 •

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