Retired psychiatrist Hugh Winig wrote an article titled Il Dolce Far Niente (The Sweetness of Doing Nothing) for OLLI at UC Berkeley (16 January 2024).
Continue reading “Il Dolce Far Niente (The Sweetness of Doing Nothing)”The Fundamental Complexity of Business
Doug Garnett wrote a guest article on the Strategy in Praxis Substack titled The Fundamental Complexity of Business.
Continue reading “The Fundamental Complexity of Business”What Mr. Rogers knew about leadership
David Burkus and Daniel Coyle discuss how the communication style of Mr. Rogers builds meaningful connections. See video below.
Continue reading “What Mr. Rogers knew about leadership”MLK Jr: The Purpose of Education
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote an article titled The Purpose of Education for the Morehouse College student newspaper, the Maroon Tiger (January-February 1947).
Continue reading “MLK Jr: The Purpose of Education”Why Government Cannot Be Run Like a Business
Peter G. Klein wrote an article for Mises Wire titled Why Government Cannot Be Run Like a Business (4 Sept 2017).
Continue reading “Why Government Cannot Be Run Like a Business”Clumsy writing will usually have gotten the ideas wrong too
Paul Graham wrote an essay titled Good Writing (May 2025).
« I think writing that sounds good is more likely to be right… Fixing sentences that sound bad seems to help get the ideas right. »
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John V. Willshire wrote a blog post titled Cognitive Debt (5 May 2025).
Continue reading “Cognitive Debt and Technical Debt”Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?
The Economist published an article titled Is the Decline of Reading Making Politics Dumber? (4 Sept 2025).
« The problem was less that these students of literature were not literary and more that they were barely even literate. »
Continue reading “Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?”People rate selves better than average, even faced with objective data to the contrary.
Dee Gill wrote an article for UCLA Anderson Review titled Unflattering Facts Don’t Dent Positive Self-Assessments (17 September 2025).
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Adam Tauman Kalai (Open AI), Ofir Nachum (Open AI), Santosh S. Vempala (Georgia Tech), and Edwin Zhang (Open AI) wrote a paper titled Why Language Models Hallucinate (4 September 2025).
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