Why is it a ‘failure to launch’ if your children live at home? I look at my children and think about this. I don’t want them to go anywhere, and I’d like to remain close as adults. The western parenting goal is for your children to leave, but why would you want this? Don’t you like them?

I grew up in America, on the launchpad. My parents liked me, but the assumption was always that I would grow up and leave. Then I moved back to Sri Lanka and discovered another culture. I guess you could say South Asian culture…

Basecamp’s implosion — losing one-third of staff — is about much more than politics. It’s a failure of philosophy. Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson have been good writers, but their latest work sounds like a 14-year-old discovering Ayn Rand.

“By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude,” Fried writes, quoting Aldous Huxley. OK dude, but you literally make software for teams.

Fried introduces his Changes at Basecamp post with this Huxley quote which is absolutely bonkers. I’ll reproduce it in full.

As Huxley offers in The Doors of Perception, “We live together…

Bill Gates has said ‘NO’ to patent sharing during a pandemic. Why? Because places like India are ‘unsafe’. But, uh, India manufactures over 60% of the world’s vaccines now. Are they unsafe? Gates knows all this, so you have to take his statements for what they are. Racist dog-whistles. Gates is cynically using racism against ‘dirty’ places like India to preserve drug company monopolies. You know, the sort of monopolies he was prosecuted for.

Monopolists going to monopolize, and this ain’t Internet Explorer. This is getting people killed.

Just listen to Gates statements here and tell me this is anything…

We all need to go back to preschool. We’re missing simple moral points a four-year-old would understand. Points like:

1. Share
2. Two wrongs don’t make a right
3. Do unto others (as you would have done unto you)

Children are taught these three lessons by adults who don’t follow them. We should really practice what we preach. From inequality to incarceration to migration, these preschool lessons have vast implications for the world.

1. Share

Take vaccine equity. I’ve been arguing myself hoarse about why we should share vaccines, but then I realize that I’ve been telling my children the same thing. It’s actually not…

Imagine this movie. The mob hijacks governments and uses them to profiteer from a pandemic. They try to take over military bases in South America and propose biological warfare against China and Russia. They kill hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, and gloat about the pandemic becoming permanent, because it makes them money. Now understand that this is not a movie. This is real life. It’s getting real people killed.

You cannot understand this insanity through the lense of politics or economics. You need to understand mafianomics. Let me break it down.

1. The Corruption

What separates a street dealer…

The fan in the dressing room is bent and rotates all fucked up. I’m sitting in bed, looking at it, and it’s a whirlpool into the past. Why is the fan bent? Because I got angry at my son. I didn’t throw him into the fan or anything. Just a series of events ended up there, because I got angry.

We have scars from that (isolated) incident all around the house. The guest room has jagged gashes around the lock. The bathroom window was wrenched off its hinges. All because my son got angry, and I got angry as well…

America is hoarding over 100 million unused vaccine doses, has exported nothing, and is embargoing basic supplies. This isn’t Trump policy, this is Biden. This is you America, this is you. During the world’s time of need, where were Americans? Shots in both arms, middle fingers up to the world.

1. The Global Embargo

During a global pandemic America has embargoed basic medical supplies. I simply cannot understand the wanton inhumanity of this, it really is a crime against humanity. Other countries with far less than America are not doing this. They’re uniting against the virus. …

When you’re diving, you crash through glass, shattered into a million pieces by the waves. The ocean’s surface really is a glass border between two different worlds. From above the glass is dark, the waves are blue. From below, the glass is white, the waves shimmer with light. When you dive you pass, truly, into a bizarro world.

When I went under I looked up, at what was once down. It made no sense. I could see the sun, but everything around it had folded into an unintelligible circle. …