Mitch Wyle's Web Log

Ukraine created and remotely operated a weaponized drone factory inside Russia. Ukraine also contracted honest Russian freight companies to ...

Adam Becker's book More Everything Forever rigorously critiques techno-utopian visions of artificial general intelligence, space coloni...

Douglas Murray's On Democracies and Death Cults (2025) is a masterful blend of incisive analysis and deeply personal reflection, delive...

Original Sin delivers a sharp exposé of former President Joe Biden's cognitive decline and the orchestrated cover-up by his inner circl...

Douglas Murray's The War on the West is a compelling and meticulously researched defense of Western culture and Enlightenment ideals. Mu...

Sarah Wynn Williams' Careless People is a captivating exploration of her tumultuous tenure at Facebook/Meta, delivered through the lens...

The Lindy effect aka " Lindy's law " is the theory that the momentary future life expectancy of an idea or technology (object...

Great book with interesting ideas and a refreshingly new perspective.  Alex Karp is emerging as a new intellectual thought leader among patr...

The book offers a compelling and insightful recounting of the American ambassador's experiences in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Apologies for abusing the famous Holocaust poem  in the title, I noticed today that the genAI bubble is making enormous progress at replaci...

I almost always enjoy Gladwell's stories and books.  This one is fantastic and highly recommended. 5/5 Stars.

This book presents a fascinating and in-depth collection of vignettes that highlight the dedication and idealism of medical professionals. I...

Dieses Buch erinnert mich an James Micheners The Drifters aus dem Jahr 1971. Beide Romane stellen eine Gruppe junger Menschen und ihre Erfa...

Similar, but not as good as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, this book explains how and why most of us should prepare for our inevitable end...

Puke awful, terrible. I put the book down after suffering through half of the text. 0/5 Stars. Harari should spend 1/10th the time he spends...

My first published academic paper in 1987 explained an elegant experiment I ran using SAT test questions that measure retention to discove...

This book is much better than I expected. The author is a journalist who does a very good job of presenting the science through the words an...

Here are some excerpts Robert Greene has collected from his earlier works on the topics of strategy, human nature, manipulating people, and ...

I recently watched this Free Press interview with Steven Pinker where professor Pinker chats with Michael Moynaham on "why smart peopl...

Great podcast by Malcolm Gladwell describing Paul Simon's career and music.  5/5 Stars.