Author: Daniel Keem
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You Don’t Own Most of Your Tech Anymore
Software licenses, server dependencies, and DRM mean most of the technology you bought, you don’t actually own. Companies can revoke access at will.
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Timing the Market Isn’t Always a Mistake
The orthodox advice is never to time the market. The honest answer is more nuanced — some forms of timing are well-supported, while others reliably fail.
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Mental health awareness campaigns may be making outcomes worse
Mental health awareness campaigns are universally praised but increasingly questioned. Some research suggests broad symptom messaging may worsen outcomes for some.
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Document Drop Disinformation: How Epstein List Hype Outpaced Reality
Public expectations of the Epstein document unsealings vastly outpaced what the records actually disclosed. Here’s the gap between hype and substance.
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The Dancing Israelis story: what actually happened
The Dancing Israelis case has been mythologized in many directions. Here’s what the FBI files, news reporting, and court records actually establish.
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Sales taxes are a tax on being poor
Sales taxes hit lower-income households hardest as a share of income. The regressive math of consumption taxes is well-documented and rarely contested.
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Smart Home Devices Create More Problems Than They Solve
Smart home devices automate the wrong things, fail in new ways, and create privacy and security exposures the analog versions never had. Most aren’t worth it.
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Being Alone Isn’t Always Riskier
Cultural messaging treats being alone — traveling, living, walking — as inherently dangerous. The actual data tells a much more nuanced story.
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Some Chronic Illnesses Are Misdiagnosed More Than Diagnosed
Several chronic conditions are routinely confused, dismissed, or assigned wrong labels in primary care. The misdiagnosis rates are large enough to matter.