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Category Archives: Blogging
My Profiles & Essays & Archives
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Longest Running Bloggers
I’ve been blogging nearly daily since July 3, 1997. Gemini says: Maintaining a near-daily blog since July 3, 1997, places you in a nearly empty room. While many people started sites in the mid-to-late nineties, very few maintained the daily … Continue reading
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The hard truth about writing in an AI-saturated expert market
ChatGPT says: Generic analysis is dead. If AI can produce competent summaries of the Iran war, deterrence theory, oil markets, and alliance shifts in seconds, then your value cannot be “clear explanation.” That’s table stakes now. So what survives? Three … Continue reading
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Blogging vs Streaming The Iran War
When you blog 40 to 50 hours a week, you are operating like the academic coalition. You optimize for: • Depth • Synthesis • Long horizon pattern recognition • Cross domain frameworks like Alliance Theory That builds intellectual capital. It … Continue reading
Blogging vs Streaming
I haven’t done any livestream commentary on the news for two weeks and have instead devoted myself to blogging. This has rewired my system. I’m a different person when I stream regularly vs when I write regularly. Livestreaming is performance. … Continue reading
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The Leading Orthodox Blogs, Vlogs & Podcasts
Here’s a list of notable Orthodox Jewish blogs, vlogs, and podcasts worth checking out. Some are heavily Orthodox-focused in theology or community issues. Some lean more broadly Jewish but include Orthodox voices or content. Blogs and Written Sites Jew in … Continue reading
Decoding Outside The Beltway
ChatGPT says: Outside the Beltway is best understood, through Alliance Theory, as a moderate elite coalition platform that tries to preserve a shared, classical-liberal alliance space while policing the edges of partisan escalation. The site does not aim to build … Continue reading
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Trust & Evidence on the Internet
Michael S. Kochin published this essay in Rhêtorikê: Revista Digital de Retórica 0 (March 2008): First, newspapers and television don’t have footnotes. Even newspaper science reporting and editorials, both of which almost always rely on other reporting, do not use … Continue reading
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The Vlogosphere and its Enemies (1-7-24)
01:00 Trump is an American representative of the populist nationalist surge, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/opinion/trump-election-2024.html03:00 Designated Survivor, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Designated_Survivor_(TV_series)05:00 NYTimes podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aubBW1ZOwc33:00 The blogosphere and its enemies: the case of oophorectomy, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=14022756:00 Doctors performs hundreds of unnecessary surgeries, https://magazine.atavist.com/damages-javaid-perwaiz-virginia-obgyn-surgeries-lawsuit/59:00 Using women’s bodies to get … Continue reading
The Turning Point
As I develop a list of my best blog posts and best videos, I notice that it is only after February 2, 2020 that I consistently like my online production (I like most of my life choices after the summer … Continue reading
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