Ready-made and the alternative
Most of the time buying something that’s been ready-made by professionals is cheaper – especially if you count the cost of your time – and… Read More »Ready-made and the alternative
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Deirdre McCloskey on liberty and human flourishing
The real ability of the poorest to buy goods and services rose, 1800 to the present, by 3,000 percent. Literally. A factor of thirty. …… Read More »Deirdre McCloskey on liberty and human flourishing
Seth Godin on difficult conversations
I highly recommend this week’s excellent episode of Akimbo about Difficult Conversations. Here’s my summary: There are lots of conversations that we think of as… Read More »Seth Godin on difficult conversations
The water we swim in: Robert Pondiscio on culture and school performance
This extract is from is a great Econtalk discussion of How the Other Half Learns. Recommend. Robert Pondiscio: They [Success Academy Charter Schools] require an… Read More »The water we swim in: Robert Pondiscio on culture and school performance
Neil Gaiman on reading fiction, empathy and changing the world
“Fiction has two uses. Firstly, it’s a gateway drug to reading. The drive to know what happens next, to want to turn the page, the… Read More »Neil Gaiman on reading fiction, empathy and changing the world
The onion strikes back: Maggie Koerth on the nested problems of Covid-19 testing
Covid-19 testing has been a mixed bag: Singapore and Korea seem to have been able to get on top of things quickly, while the UK… Read More »The onion strikes back: Maggie Koerth on the nested problems of Covid-19 testing
David Krakauer on Claude Shannon’s definition of information
[Claude] Shannon said “Look, here’s what information is. Let’s say I want to navigate from one part of the city to another, from A to… Read More »David Krakauer on Claude Shannon’s definition of information
New tools for your industry
We’re beginning to penetrate architecture and engineering and the auto design world and aerospace and other markets where they need extremely high fidelity tools. So… Read More »New tools for your industry
I’d rather be
If you’d rather be doing something else, please go and do it. You are more useful there than here. But if you really would rather… Read More »I’d rather be
In the frame / boxing clever
We always live with constraints: A bad boss (perhaps the world’s worst); A stifling bureaucracy; A chaotic lack of structure; Incompetent managers; Bungling colleagues; Crippling… Read More »In the frame / boxing clever