“It is immoral to be in opposition to the market system and not live (somewhere in Vermont or Northwestern Afghanistan) in a hut or cave isolated from it.” Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game...Read More
Here is an example of competing interests, power groups and unintended consequences. On our recent New England trip we observed that in hotels built before about 1980 the stairs were a usable alternat...Read More
The only Frank Lloyd Wright designed house in Oregon I just posted the word empirical in my Words Seldom Seem thread and three thoughts that had been running around in my head separately suddenly came...Read More
Syncretism The union of different or opposing principles, practices, or parties, as in philosophy, language or religion. Example: “It would be good if you stopped fighting and got a little syncr...Read More
Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions. Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game...Read More
“You’re betraying your whole life if you don’t say what you think, and you don’t say it honestly and bluntly.” Charles Krauthammer 1950-2018 A life well lived....Read More
In Russia today Stalin is the bad guy. The dead Tsar is a Saint. Lenin who killed the Tsar is still a hero. Putin is a popular politician and Simon is perplexed....Read More