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> Without the pressure to speak amongst others, it became clear that I often said things out of anxiety I can't go probably 100 words without saying something stupid or flat out co…

Henry Petroski in "To Engineer is Human" has a chapter about the advent of the calculator during the slide rule era, and that calculators (and later computers) eroded a structural …

How about professions that require licensing to practice (civil engineering, accounting, insurance, actuarial science, law, medicine, pharmacy, nursing), or work in the government …

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I like that analogy, rules are pipes through which behavior flows.

Agreed, building something is just the first step. One of the marketing struggles I've had is just getting people to care. I did have a bit of an "If you build it, they will come" …

Just be careful if you believe the itch is the result of something you might be allergic to (e.g., food, or bug bites). I had several bites from fire ants and ran them under hot wa…

> Seth Klarman, in Margin of Safety ... May I ask where / how you came about your copy? I've seen it mentioned several times but have found it difficult to locate. (For example, th…

I prefer his "brass tacks" writing style, but it's also interesting to compare the versions (Grillo-Marxuach is a screenwriter, after all).

Since the link above is for the "nice version", here's the link to the more colorful, not-so-nice version: https://okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/5/0/31506003/11_laws_o...

Indeed Japan does: https://www.j-platpat.inpit.go.jp/d0100

Interesting! What kind of history class was it, that would include studying logical fallacies? The application to real life is the most important step, I think. I guess that makes …

The first chapter of Michalos' "Improving Your Reasoning" ends with the following: "The question is: Will you study logic in order to learn more about this tool [logic] you have be…