Lorenzo from Oz

Life is anti-entropic

Search, coordination and information landscapes: ‘capitalism’ and ‘capitalist’ are disastrous terms (III).

Oct 1 • Lorenzo Warby

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September 2026

Information, risk and uncertainty: why tech booms are the obverse of financial crises

‘Capitalism’ and ‘capitalist’ are disastrous terms (II), exaggerating the role of capital.

Sep 21 • Lorenzo Warby

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Romanticising the state

‘Capitalism’ and ‘Capitalist’ are disastrous terms (I).

Sep 7 • Lorenzo Warby

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Thinkers who help us understand where we are and why

Piketty, Goodhart, al-Gharbi (plus Henderson and Turchin), Miniter and Davies.

Sep 2 • Lorenzo Warby

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August 2026

Why we need to talk about female behaviour within organisations

Using evolutionary reasoning (VI).

Aug 17 • Lorenzo Warby

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Why social ‘science’ mostly isn’t science

Failing to accept the constraint of being consilient with more fundamental structures of reality; that the social is emergent from the biological (using…

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July 2026

States, culture, cognitive dimorphism, mass production, social corrosion, hidden impoverishment

Using evolutionary reasoning (IV).

Jul 21 • Lorenzo Warby

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Imperial demographic booms and social order busts (plus contemporary resonances)

Why niches matter in human history: using evolutionary reasoning (III).

Jul 8 • Lorenzo Warby

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Using evolutionary reasoning (II)

Norms, language, prestige, propriety, social aggression, diet, and murdering our way to niceness.

Jul 5 • Lorenzo Warby

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Using evolutionary reasoning (I)

Start from the beginning and read a lot about other societies.

Jul 1

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June 2026

African-American crime

The dynamics of locality interact with reactive aggression.

Jun 20 • Lorenzo Warby

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The uniformity delusion in Chinese thought and Western progressivism

The false premise from which so much toxic nonsense flows.

Jun 7 • Lorenzo Warby

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