How can I throw my life away in the least unhappy way?

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

Information wants to be free.

Many of my contemporaries in the developed world see subsistence farming as soulful and organic, but it is a poverty trap and an environmental disaster.

If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would go in a Coke can.

In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.

If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.