Cause and Effect (1): J. L. Mackie on INUS conditions
You can’t start a fire without a spark… and fuel… and… Asked what a cause is, we may be tempted to say that it is… Read More »Cause and Effect (1): J. L. Mackie on INUS conditions
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A Place to Stand; or, A DriverlessCrocodile Worldview
Some foundational assumptions:
Hyman G. Rickover’s management fundamentals
For those who came in late… U.S. Admiral Hyman Rickover – “the father of the nuclear navy” was a man who got things done: Within… Read More »Hyman G. Rickover’s management fundamentals
Rip Curl Reefer Split Toe Surf Booties Size help
I really like these boots: they protect your feet, stay on in the waves and are flexible and grippy. The only thing that’s tricky about… Read More »Rip Curl Reefer Split Toe Surf Booties Size help
The chain reactions of literature: more from Katherine Rundell on children’s books
This is a fun essay from Katherine Rundell. I’ll forgive her for using Plato to argue for censoring social media at the end when she… Read More »The chain reactions of literature: more from Katherine Rundell on children’s books
Driverless Christmas
Despite my silence for the last few of weeks, rest assured that I have not been asleep at the wheel… Greetings First off, Merry –… Read More »Driverless Christmas
Quixotic Monuments to False Prediction: Oliver Kim and Morten Jervens on GDP in developing countries
(And relevant, I suspect, to more developed ones). This piece from Oliver Kim resonates with my struggle to get good (methodologically clear, sufficiently granular, consistent,… Read More »Quixotic Monuments to False Prediction: Oliver Kim and Morten Jervens on GDP in developing countries
Thucydides: Innovation and Rapid Iteration vs Conservativism in the Peloponnesian War
… we [the representatives of Corinth] consider that we have as good a right as any one to point out a neighbour’s faults, particularly when… Read More »Thucydides: Innovation and Rapid Iteration vs Conservativism in the Peloponnesian War
Kafka: Wriggling through by subtle manoeuvres
From muddling to wriggling, here’s Kafka: “My mode of life is devised solely for writing, and if there are any changes, then only for the… Read More »Kafka: Wriggling through by subtle manoeuvres
John Psmith on learning from neutered exercises vs real problems, red in tooth and claw
This is from an excellent Psmith review of Alexander Zvonkin’s Math from Three to Seven: The Story of a Mathematical Circle for Preschoolers – The… Read More »John Psmith on learning from neutered exercises vs real problems, red in tooth and claw