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Usually, when the money runs out, they return with their tails between their legs, often in shittier jobs that they'd have had if they'd stuck with it. You're right about the grass…

I'd argue that, while it may not be selfish to have kids, most people who are having kids do it for selfish reasons. They don't want to "die alone". They want to show that they can…

The best route is either to roll your own or go with a service like Ghost. Sure, you'll have to pay hosting, but you're not going to have shitty ads run on your blog. Substack seem…

Our healthcare system is an absolute travesty for the poor, but it's pretty lousy even for people who can afford care. I know plenty of people with 7- and 8-figure net worth, peopl…

On the other hand, for-profit medicine is great for the shareholders.

> I see that phrase thrown around a lot. It's a variant of "you're never going to be a billionaire (so you shouldn't be against X)." Why do people assume that you have to think you…

This is absolutely going to be used against unionizers, which is what's really meant by "colluding". In the US this is going to get a lot of people fired. In other parts of the wor…

> Considering that the US universities consistently rank among the top and they do produce the significant portion of the groundbreaking innovation and technology, maybe the Americ…

I think this is a great idea, but for a different reason. "Elite college" is a relative and somewhat zero-sum term, since it refers not to the quality of education but the quality …

The issue is that, while writing skill is rare and somewhat objective, writing performance is intensely subjective. The experiment's been done where people take award-winning novel…

> I bet there are also bodies of work by posters on internet forums, social media etc. that would constitute great works if properly compiled, edited, and promoted. I'd be careful.…

Counterpoint: For many careers remote work deprives young workers of mentoring, relationship building, and learning by osmosis. This is already being seen at law firms for example.…

The headline's a bit of a stretch compared to what is really going on. We're nowhere close to artificial general intelligence (AGI) and we may never get there, because humans with …

The other problem with the "we need to fix the system" arguments is that they often ignore the much greater problems in our society. Our schools, in the aggregate, aren't that bad.…

> The article describes what it takes to getting published; ie, passing an ever increasing number of gatekeepers. Agents, "blurb writers", publishers, reviewers are all professiona…

I want to compare OKRs to Performance Reviews and Roadmapping. They’re all worthwhile ideas that can bring discipline and structure to the chaotic world of business, all dreaded by…

Ball packing (no, it's not some new thing Bay Area VCs are doing--I mean, it probably is also that but it's not what I'm referring to here; rather, it's the n-dimensional analogue …

Casinos are regulated. Casinos don't dominate the economy. Casinos haven't wasted the bulk of a generation's top talent to enrich a small number of pederasts in a tiny geographic a…

Most venture-funded startups solve silly non-problems or in fact cause serious harm to society, but make billions of dollars in doing it. Meanwhile, we haven't been to the moon sin…

Ninety-nine percent of private equity profits come from taking strategies that are illegal with regulated, public companies and applying them to unregulated assets. And venture cap…

It's astonishing how much money can be made while providing absolutely nothing of value to society.

Capitalism isn't the cause of all police brutality, but the upper class deliberately divides working people against each other, which creates the racism and classism (middle vs. lo…

It's not just B-school; the predictive variable is the social class of the students. In low-income public schools, the problems are systemic and have more to do with society than t…

Disagree. Business schools have upgraded the "Gentleman's C" to an A-minus, due to grade inflation. (I wouldn't use the word "gentleman", though; most of the people today have no c…

One of the reasons the Soviet system had so many unpleasant years is that it was a system of economic totalitarianism. If Stalin wanted a road built in Siberia, he would make sure …