Dark, Self-Inflicted Clouds Over the Rainbow Nation
After spending upwards of a year on the ground here in South Africa and having read quite a bit of the history on the place (it’s a never-ending wormhole, let me tell you) I’ve come to believe that the following quote from Rian Malan,…
The Most Important Hire for a New Dad
Quality, reliable child care is the great unlock. Want to go to the gym? Go for a run? Go out with friends in the evening? Show up on time for a call and be prepared for it? Do deep work that's uninterrupted? You need an extra set of reliable,…
Debate vs. Denounce: How Cancel Culture Replaced Civil Disagreement
It’s October 2020, and I’m at the Mises Institute Supporters’ Summit at Jekyll Island, Georgia – the site where the Federal Reserve was founded in 1910. Timing-wise, this was deep COVID. The lockdowns were in full swing. Sweden was running its…
Zero-Sum vs. Positive-Sum Thinking: Why the Game You Think You’re Playing Determines Everything
Economists stumbled upon something interesting a while back. Two different default assumptions about the world that shape how people see almost everything. Zero-sum thinking. There’s a fixed pool of any specific good. For you to have more,…
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Critic vs. Revolutionary: How to Transmute What’s Wrong Into What’s Right
Table of Contents Criticism Is Cheap The Dopamine Hit of Being Right Shouting Into a System That Doesn’t Listen When Acting Locally Doesn’t Work Two Revolutions, One Lesson The Algorithm Loves a Takedown The Spectrum Between Critiquing and…
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Libertas Bella, which roughly translates to "Liberty is…