This is an installment in an irregular series of quick meditations on what I’m calling the “personal economy,” inspired by E.F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful. Prior to World War II, the Chinese government calculated that it took the equivalent of 30 peasants’ annual …
This is an installment in an irregular series of quick meditations on what I’m calling the “personal economy,” inspired by E.F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful. Schumacher uses the term “footlooseness” to describe the ability of people to relocate freely within …
This is the first of what I hope to be an irregular series of quick meditations on what I’m calling the “personal economy,” inspired by E.F. Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful. Despite soaring gas prices, this Fourth of July weekend saw …
An article by Nassim Nicholas Taleb about the fallacy of IQ testing got me thinking of the way we measure intelligence, and perhaps more importantly, stupidity. What do those terms even mean? Can we come up with a useful heuristic …