The Fear and Loathing of Mark Zuckerberg
It's not even necessarily the way they acquire their wealth initially. Zuck gets lucky, codes a MySpace knock-off that just happens to catch on, and becomes a multi-billionaire. Ok, well, in that chain of events he hasn't exactly murdered children or anything heinous. Yes, he was demonstrably "not a great guy" even in the beginning, but loads of awful people win the lottery to0, that's the nature of a probabilistic universe. So it goes. But it's how these billionaires act ...
The Fear and Loathing of Mark Zuckerberg
It's not even necessarily the way they acquire their wealth initially. Zuck gets lucky, codes a MySpace knock-off that just happens to catch on, and becomes a multi-billionaire. Ok, well, in that chain of events he hasn't exactly murdered children or anything heinous. Yes, he was demonstrably "not a great guy" even in the beginning, but loads of awful people win the lottery to0, that's the nature of a probabilistic universe. So it goes. But it's how these billionaires act ...
Economic Software 1945-2021
Now, I have to tell you Kennedy isn’t making these rules up. They did become orthodoxy in advanced-economy treasuries in the 1980s. They’re the reason John Kerin’s budget of 1991, delivered in the depths of "the recession we [didn’t] have to have" contained zero stimulus, meaning the stimulus, when it came in February 1992, came too late.This view isn't wide enough and lacks all the details. The worlds entire global economy software was changed, not just ours, under the guidance of Milto...
Economic Software 1945-2021
Now, I have to tell you Kennedy isn’t making these rules up. They did become orthodoxy in advanced-economy treasuries in the 1980s. They’re the reason John Kerin’s budget of 1991, delivered in the depths of "the recession we [didn’t] have to have" contained zero stimulus, meaning the stimulus, when it came in February 1992, came too late.This view isn't wide enough and lacks all the details. The worlds entire global economy software was changed, not just ours, under the guidance of Milto...
A Trip to Saranac
\n This was my second experience with Europa, and it was just as magical as my first. My best friend 'Jack' and I were on a road trip, staying for a few days at my family's cottage on Lake Saranac in the Adirondacks. We decided to take a day to ourselves, and so we each took around 17.5mg in pill form before taking our little motorboat out to a beautiful island campsite in the middle of the lake. \n \n The weather was gorgeous--a white sun piercing incredible cumulonimbus cloud...
A Trip to Saranac
\n This was my second experience with Europa, and it was just as magical as my first. My best friend 'Jack' and I were on a road trip, staying for a few days at my family's cottage on Lake Saranac in the Adirondacks. We decided to take a day to ourselves, and so we each took around 17.5mg in pill form before taking our little motorboat out to a beautiful island campsite in the middle of the lake. \n \n The weather was gorgeous--a white sun piercing incredible cumulonimbus cloud...
The New Right
Rick Perlstein has a series of books about the restoration of conservatism, most notably economic, laissez-faire conservatism, in the United States beginning in the late 1970's. His most recent book is called Reaganland and it came out in 2020. As with all of his other books, I am listening to it on Audible because I am a lazy young whipper snapper. The books are amazing, and they really go a ways to explaining what has happened to our economy and why the members of the older generations...
The New Right
Rick Perlstein has a series of books about the restoration of conservatism, most notably economic, laissez-faire conservatism, in the United States beginning in the late 1970's. His most recent book is called Reaganland and it came out in 2020. As with all of his other books, I am listening to it on Audible because I am a lazy young whipper snapper. The books are amazing, and they really go a ways to explaining what has happened to our economy and why the members of the older generations...
A Homage to Hunter S. Thompson
A Homage to Hunter S. Thompson He spent ink on paper like he blew through lines of cocaine in between shots of Jameson and packs of Dunhills. Prolific, vicious in his capture of human perversity and thorough in his description of a mind pushed past the edge of sanity; what a lifetime of drug abuse will do to a man. As destructive as a force of nature in the ferocity with which he expressed his abhorrence for square society and the powers that be. Hunter personified the American Dream in the w...
A Homage to Hunter S. Thompson
A Homage to Hunter S. Thompson He spent ink on paper like he blew through lines of cocaine in between shots of Jameson and packs of Dunhills. Prolific, vicious in his capture of human perversity and thorough in his description of a mind pushed past the edge of sanity; what a lifetime of drug abuse will do to a man. As destructive as a force of nature in the ferocity with which he expressed his abhorrence for square society and the powers that be. Hunter personified the American Dream in the w...
