Disclaimer: I’m an intermediate surfer. This post is for people a step or two behind me, so your mileage may vary – let me know… Read More »Surfing: Why does it help to arch your back when paddling? (it isn’t for leverage) – Surf Lessons #8
Newbigin was a sharp but affectionate observer of Western culture, a highly educated insider with an extra layer of perspective that came from almost 40… Read More »Lesslie Newbigin and Michael Polanyi on objectivity, personal knowledge, nihilism and tradition
JustinGuitar For those who came in later than I did… If you’re looking for online guitar resources, start with Justin Guitar. Justin Sandercoe started doing… Read More »Wonders of the Internet (2): Justin Guitar and Tomo Fujita’s Guitar Wisdom
Writing good documentation is key infrastructure work. Remove documentation, or fail to provide it, and your products cease to exist, their inner workings left to… Read More »Fabrizio Ferri Benedetti: Docs as code, Docs as infrastructure, Docs as product
Some problems are like getting a diploma: you work at it for a while, and then you’re done forever. Learning how to ride a bike… Read More »Diploma problems, toothbrushing problems, and Russian Dolls
At its core, accounting is about keeping track of countable things over time. Some of the oldest documents archelogists have found register quantities in old… Read More »Recommendation: Matheus Portela on Double Entry Bookkeeping
… and hubris. Long, and worth it – like the Histories as a whole. The king [Xerxes] took his seat… and looking down over the… Read More »Herodotus’ Xerxes on futility, suffering, risk-taking and action
… the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon – The History… Read More »Edward Gibbon and Zhuang Zi on teaching, learning and tacit knowledge
Via Alex Tabarrok at MR … abstract public knowledge per se has very little effect on corporate patenting, publishing, or employment of scientists. Our study… Read More »Public knowledge, private know-how?
(Still) recommended. Perhaps there is something unique about the people studied by RCTs in the criminal legal space that could limit generalizability. For instance, the… Read More »“If it was easy for them to have made a meaningful improvement, they would have done so already.”: Megan Stevenson on social change and constraints