Archive - Mr Philomath

Cryptonomicon and the PayPal Mafia

Intellectual fiction that inspired PayPal

Jun 18 •

April 2025

Peter Thiel and the Motivation Problem

Apr 19 •

Fiction, Math and Infinite Books with Jim O'Shaughnessy

A chat with perhaps the world's most interesting person

Apr 12 •

March 2025

Physics, Faraday and GEB with Sidney Nagel

We discuss GEB, physics, Polykarp Kusch and more

Mar 8 •

February 2025

A Tale of Two Nobels

Kip Thorne and John Jumper

Feb 15 •

A Week In Boston

Thanksgiving 2024

Feb 1 •

December 2024

Peter Thiel's philosophy

Dec 21, 2024

November 2024

Hilbert's Hotel Paradox

On the infinitude of infinities

Nov 9, 2024 •

October 2024

The neuroscience of learning

Oct 12, 2024 •

September 2024

Glimpsing Gödel's Genius

Paradoxes of self-reference

Sep 7, 2024 •

August 2024

Insights on creativity from math proofs to yoga asana: deliberate practice, growth mindset and beyond

Aug 3, 2024 •

July 2024

Zero To One and The Black Swan

Connecting the dots on fractals, outliers, power law distributions and beyond

Jul 6, 2024 •

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