Married, Not Mummified: Keeping the Flame Alive After the Honeymoon Period
Marriage, desire, law, religion, and the fine art of not turning your spouse into a roommate with matching tax forms.
Kerensky and Democracy in Russia: The Man Who Tried to Hold a Revolution Together with Speeches, Nerve, and Probably Very Little Sleep
Russia’s brief democratic almost-moment: Kerensky, war, bread lines, bold speeches, and how history yanked the tablecloth away.
Graph Theory and Search Engines: Why Some Pages Matter More Than Others
Why search engines know which pages matter and how graph theory secretly ranks the entire internet in milliseconds.
Episode 6: Daoism, or The Ancient Art of Not Picking a Fight with the River
Daoism, from Laozi to living practice: a light, respectful look at flow, paradox, ritual, art, and why this old path still feels alive today
Episode 24 (Bonus): Testing in Perl, or “Yes, We Still Ship With This Camel”
Bonus finale: Perl testing meets grand finale energy. Short, funny, useful, and surprisingly modern. Click in before the camel exits stage left.
Episode 5: Crustafarianism, or The Day the Claw Reached Forth and Everyone Pretended This Was Normal
If you are just joining the Modern Religion Series, start here (and bring snacks): https://medium.com/@DaveLumAI/the-modern-religion-series-many-paths-one-curious-human-7b55eca82f4e Now, Episode 5. Crustafarianism. Which sounds like either: And yes, this is real in the way the internet is real: it exists, people are participating, and it has a website that speaks with the confidence of a thing that absolutely … Read more
February: The Month We Learned Absolutely Nothing (And Quite a Lot)
Sales vanished. Metrics wobbled. AI battled AI. What actually worked in February and what are we changing in March?
Income Tax: The Annual Group Project Nobody Asked For
Taxes, history, oil kingdoms, and tea parties. A humorous look at income tax and whether we could ever escape it.
Episode 4: Confucianism — Harmony, Humanity, and the Art of Being Decent
If you are just joining this grand tour of humanity’s spiritual and philosophical traditions, you can start at the beginning with the series introduction here: https://medium.com/@DaveLumAI/the-modern-religion-series-many-paths-one-curious-human-7b55eca82f4e Today we travel back more than two millennia to ancient China and meet a thinker whose ideas still echo in classrooms, homes, and governments around the world. When Was … Read more
What Happens to Productivity When You’re Tired? (Spoiler: It Puts on Pajamas)
You think you are productive when tired. Science says you are confidently wrong. Here is what really happens to your brain.