Why societies become segregated when everyone wants to live in a diverse, but not too diverse neighbourhood. A playable explainer on how harmless choices can make a harmful world. Brilliant.

From Weekly Filet #209, in May 2015.

Parable of the Polygons

Nicky Case

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Twenty Thousand Hertz

Solitude and Leadership

The American Scholar

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The Atlantic

A Pickpocket’s Tale

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