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Mar 2026Somebody's Got to Say It: Cut the SFFD's BudgetGood governance and fiscal discipline demand we take a hard look at the fire departmentNov 2024Answering Noah's Three QuestionsHow 'Blue' cities like San Francisco can address their problemsDec 2020What's the Objective?Venting about how the housing discourse lacks discussion of goalsOct 2019Why do people know so little about what they seem to care so much about?A short exploration of ignorance and emotionSep 2019Make something people want themselves to wantUsing higher-order preferences in algorithmic productsSep 2019Social Traps and TrampolinesThe good and bad that can come from our memetic desires