Monday, July 24, 2017

Terra Nullius of the Mind - Anyone Up for Change?

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“Pleased as we are with possession, we seem afraid to look back to the means by which it was acquired, as if fearful of some defect in our...
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Sunday, July 2, 2017

Risk Aversion: A Statistical Primer for Public Servants

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This is a rare post for me as it is the prequel to a series that I suspect will grow more macabre in each installment.  My grandfather, ...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

With Laws Like These, We’re In Our Own Prisons

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When Gordon Moore published his article “Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits” in Electronics in 1965, he had no idea t...
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Saturday, May 6, 2017

Ain’t Got Time For That

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I’m sitting on a plane flying from Australia back to the East Coast of the United States.  I read the Wall Street Journal and the Finan...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Magnets, Means, and Errors

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Did you ever wonder what the world would be like if a notable person had never been born?  Did you ever realize the futility of that mus...
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Sunday, April 16, 2017

Easter Requiem - Stop Buying Hope

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  Hope.  What is about humans that so desperately want to cling to hope?  That’s right.  Put down the chocolate bunny.  Back away fr...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Lend Me Your Ears

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The evil men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it not be with David Rockefeller. On the 20...