a donation to Harvard is an act of conspicuous consumption by the rich, a bit like buying the watch that doesn’t tell time.
Tyler Cowen, and there is more with reading.
Jun 5 2008
Robin Hanson has written the one piece that everyone on earth should read before they post comments on a blog:Writing is hard in part because words have many associations that vary among readers. Even when we use carefully choose our words to signal certain associations, we know some readers will instead hear other as...
Jun 5 2008
Another Nassim Nicholas Taleb quote: A scalable profession is good only if you are successful; they are more competitive, produce monstrous inequalities, and are far more random, with huge disparities between efforts and rewards--a few can take a large share of the pie, leaving others out entirely at no fault of their...
Jun 5 2008
a donation to Harvard is an act of conspicuous consumption by the rich, a bit like buying the watch that doesn't tell time. Tyler Cowen, and there is more with reading.
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