In search of an idiom: not-quite-killing Desdemona
That death’s unnatural that kills for loving. Shakespeare – Othello – Act V Scene ii I’m in search of an idiom for “to destroy the… Read More »In search of an idiom: not-quite-killing Desdemona
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Long Term Investment (and your work)
The Measure of a Plan has a great set of graphics on U.S. stock market returns from the 1870s to 2022. In short, even including… Read More »Long Term Investment (and your work)
Retrospective: DriverlessCrocodile Open Browser Tabs, December 2022
Tyler Cowen thinks this is the best interview question of all time. I’m skeptical, but concede that it’s a good way of taking a snapshot… Read More »Retrospective: DriverlessCrocodile Open Browser Tabs, December 2022
Robert Merki on Wildcard People
You know that person on your team who seems to be good at everything? I mean the literal definition of the word good. Not master.… Read More »Robert Merki on Wildcard People
Niall Ferguson on reading, remembering and shared culture
Two kinds of reading Niall Ferguson: I think there are two kinds of reading. When one’s reading for work, when one has to grapple with… Read More »Niall Ferguson on reading, remembering and shared culture
Birth of a Revolution
Rock and Roll revolution (noun), late 14c., revolucioun, originally of celestial bodies, “one (apparent) rotation about the earth,” also the time required for this, also… Read More »Birth of a Revolution
Nostalgia Revisited
Nostalgia: a kind of homesickness for the past. Another way of putting it: the longing you will have in future for the places and people… Read More »Nostalgia Revisited
Eye on AI: ChatGPT and Me
You too can experiment with ChatGPT at https://chat.openai.com This is post is pretty long, so I’m putting the “See Also” links here: DriverlessCroc AI fun:The… Read More »Eye on AI: ChatGPT and Me
Technology (25): Vaclav Smil on prime movers and extrasomatic energy
Extrasomatic: outside of the body About 10 millennia ago… the first patches of deliberately cultivated plants as a small share of the Earth’s total photosynthesis… Read More »Technology (25): Vaclav Smil on prime movers and extrasomatic energy
Technology (24): Keynes on The Permanent Problem; or, The Dread of Abundance
Hattip: Brink Lindsey Let us, for the sake of argument, suppose that a hundred years hence we are all of us, on the average, eight… Read More »Technology (24): Keynes on The Permanent Problem; or, The Dread of Abundance