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Why aren't co-ops everywhere?
Why co-ops face structural disadvantages in equity markets
Apr 26, 2024 • Nick Merrill
How much debt is too much debt?
By some tellings, debt is as old as we are: our species emerged as such when relationships of informal indebtedness (you give me sheep, I’ll give you…
Apr 15 • Nick Merrill
The Internet During World War
A repost from OECD's Forum Network
Jul 23, 2025 • Nick Merrill
Along for the Ride
I joked to a friend, recently, that when you start a fresh chat with an LLM, it’s like talking to a character in Severance the moment they come to on…
Jul 19, 2025 • Nick Merrill
Updates on dreaming
I recently read Rahul Jandial’s This Is Why You Dream.
Aug 7, 2024 • Nick Merrill
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Merrill's razor
Oct 23, 2023 • Nick Merrill
Taiwan & the internet during world war
Jun 2, 2023 • Nick Merrill
Why I've Been Offline
Jan 26, 2023 • Nick Merrill
Undersea cables
Jun 25, 2021 • Nick Merrill
How secure is the Great Firewall of China?
Why China should be nervous about its tech monoculture—and so should the West
Aug 1, 2024 • Nick Merrill
AI is the internet
OpenAI's Sora: amazing, right?
Mar 5, 2024 • Nick Merrill
The U.S. military loses satelite internet access in Taiwan
Thanks, Elon.
Feb 28, 2024 • Nick Merrill
IETF 118 - CDNs and States
Content distribution networks (CDNs) handle most internet traffic.
Nov 13, 2023 • Nick Merrill
First, the burning sandalwood
First, the burning sandalwood Rising past my leaded glass. Then, the light.
Oct 31, 2023 • Nick Merrill
Merrill's razor
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by depression or anxiety.
Oct 23, 2023 • Nick Merrill
What is progress?
Have we made progress?
Aug 22, 2023 • Nick Merrill
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