I am lame for reblogging, but these kottke items are too salient not to share. This one is a question I’ve been wondering about forever, but never thought to ask in a context where anybody might try to really answer it. This reminds me of something Eric Taipale said to me about fifteen years ago: [...]
Rushkoff, from a post on Boing Boing today: But the notion that enterprise and production starts with banking is just another artifact of Renaissance-era currency monopolies. Back before the first central banks, production and yield actually created money. (That’s what all this hoopla about complementary currency is about.) Money was not lent into existence by [...]
Friday, February 27, 2009
Paul Graham, in this essay, really puts his finger on something I’ve thought for years but never formulated so well or so precisely: More generally, you can have a fruitful discussion about a topic only if it doesn’t engage the identities of any of the participants. What makes politics and religion such minefields is that [...]
One of the principal troubles with a certain class of people is a staunch belief that markets are the Baby Jesus. Daniel talked about this yesterday, but this analysis on the implications of Greenspan’s ‘confession’ got me all riled up for another take: The failure of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis is, perhaps, an even more [...]
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
In the spirit of the other day’s entry on the differences between conservatives and liberals, which is really about the differences in how people think, and why some people appear to insist on thinking with some part of their bodies other than their brains, comes this nice discussion, with abundant links, on taking a neuroscience [...]
Thursday, September 18, 2008
I’ve always just sort of assumed that people who fundamentally disagree with me are fundamentally stupid. I’m not talking about trivial, everyday disagreements, like whether you like red curry better than green curry. I’m talking about the Big Issues, like if you think George Bush is anything other than a complete and total fuckup; or [...]
Thursday, September 11, 2008
DDB sent me this link, from metafilter, on making a living (or not) from what you’re passionate about. Incredibly well-written, incredibly wise, well worth two minutes.