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By popular demand, and like last year, a list of recommended books follows, keeping with the format of one book…
As Eisenhower said, "Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." Therefore, I have planned. This is what you can expect in the…
When was the last time you rode a horse to the grocery store? Yeah, me neither. Point is, nobody in…
The solution to the robot "job apocalypse" isn't just to invent new jobs - it's also to revisit old ones that…
Let’s face it, there is pretty much only one problem in politics. Corruption. Now, I am not so naive as…
When the world’s most valuable company presents a new product, I expect it to be a Martian colonial module, a fusion…
The best thing you can do for your financial future is to read about and really understand the logic of…
Big media and social networks are now openly talking about tackling "fake news" on the internet. Okay, but let’s just…
It's amazing for people to work together and help each other. But “collectivism” is something else, typically a sneaky euphemism…
It is an obvious truism that public institutions have a tendency to bloat and meddling-creep: to always seek to increase…
People tend to confuse becoming more aware of a problem with there being more of that problem. We are now said…
Whenever a highly lucrative business is offered for sale to the general public, you can be pretty sure there’s a…
Things are apparently going so well in the West that our biggest problem is people having too much pudding. That’s…
TLDR version: What you measure, you optimize. But there are important caveats. Two things happened in a day that triggered…
Some errors are so grave, it takes an expert to make them - and uncritical journalists and motivated reasoners to…
Dear activist arseholes: stop making me oppose good things. Let me lead with a prominent example: A few years ago,…
People in tech have been arguing whether programming is something that everyone should know at least a bit (pun not intended), or…
Objective data show the world is in the best state in human history, yet people freak out and prophesize doom.…