Archive - Qui Ante Nos

The 32-hour work week

Bernie Sanders proposes a Stone Age standard

Jul 1 •

June 2024

Just enough heraldry

In celebration of Flag Day

Jun 14 •

May 2024

The power of learning more programming

May 20 •

April 2024

What you get when you order a cheap government

When I worked at a startup, I learned some tenets of startup wisdom. Here’s one: you can make a high quality product, or you can make a low-cost…

Apr 22 •

What I learned at a comic con

Or, how to be a nerd

Apr 1 •

January 2024

Working hard or hardly working

Hunger and the length of a work day, in the Stone Age

Jan 13 •

November 2023

Things didn't have to be this way

A Qui Ante Nos manifesto

Nov 11, 2023 •

September 2023

Units of measure

Pecks, bushels, and the story of Mohenjo-Daro

Sep 24, 2023 •

August 2023

Bread and subways

Two things only, the people desire

Aug 21, 2023 •

July 2023

The American county

New Jersey, Virginia, and the Holy Roman Empire

Jul 22, 2023 •

Vikings didn’t need therapy

Icelandic sagas and existentialism

Jul 8, 2023 •

June 2023

The American housing shortage

A collective action problem, like OPEC or Yucca Mountain

Jun 26, 2023 •

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