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. »
Continue reading “Clumsy writing will usually have gotten the ideas wrong too”Cognitive Debt and Technical Debt
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).
Continue reading “People rate selves better than average, even faced with objective data to the contrary.”Why language models hallucinate
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).
Continue reading “Why language models hallucinate”Austrian Economics vs. Chicago Economics
Robert P. Murphy wrote an article for the Mises Institute titled The Chicago School versus the Austrian School (26 May 2020).
Continue reading “Austrian Economics vs. Chicago Economics”Dynamic Uncertainty
Doug Garnett and JP Castlin wrote a blog post titled Complexity: The Dynamic Uncertainty of Emergence (1 August 2025).
Continue reading “Dynamic Uncertainty”Myths of Growth
Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled Complexity: Small Giants and the Myths of Growth (July 11, 2025).
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