Previous I'm writing this post in an 84º AirBnB in Los Angeles. I've finished Moravagine (learned many new words). I'm reading Basil Bunting On Poetry (learning a lot about poetry). I'm writing a lot of poetry myself and sitting in coffee shops

After four years, I've left Google. I accepted a voluntary layoff and my access was revoked at 5pm, Tuesday Aug. 19th 2025. When this happened, I felt a wave of sadness come over me, knowing that a defining chapter in my life closed and another had just begun.

My name is Thorne Wolfenbarger. I am an idealist. I believe in many things. I believe in the pursuit of knowledge and the idea that the accumulation of knowledge is a fundamental good. I believe that information has a will all its own. I believe that information wants to be

I've made a lot of side projects over the years. I am a grown man now and have to admit that the reason that none of them found traction isn't because I got unlucky, it's because I never have legitimately made a product worth

Placing alternating weights on the chest, chiefly known as Weight Cycling, is an effective method of communication while simultaneously serving as a conditioning mechanism for the body and the mind. These weights, primarily metaphysical, can be adjusted at the handles. These handles, experience, can emulate "looking back" -

How do you live an aesthetic/good/satisfying life? You can prioritize optionality, control, or a plethora of other metrics. How does regret compare to these other life policies? What does it mean to minimize regret? The "regret minimization framework" is a framework popularized by Jeff Bezos as

Capitalism is an economic system that largely dictates the structure of a society built around it. If a society is "ideas we share" + "how we interact", Capitalism provides the basis/medium/infrastructure for how a capitalistic society interacts. Capitalism is abuse. Consider an individual - a

Pre-reading is a useful activity before attending a lecture to make sure you get the most out of the delivered content. Doing some pre-reading lay out some foundations for the subject matter at hand and helps you connect the concepts introduces in the lecture more quickly and more deeply. What