Magnitude Matters

Imagine you are trying to change someone's mind. How would you go about it? What techniques would be effective?  Imagine now you are try...

My wife and daughter just returned from a delightful long weekend in Santa Fe, NM. The entire family will return soon to Saint Francis's...

Earlier this month my family and I spent a week in Maui. In case you haven't heard, it is really, really beautiful--a great vacation spo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry Of the many, many lessons to be learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic, one that stands out to me ...

" Oh, you left out a bunch of stuff ." - Thornton Melon Imagine being a fly on the wall overhearing various nefarious conversation...

Consider this graph from the COVID-19 vaccine page on the CDC's website:  Notice the red trendline, which is the 7-day moving average o...

The Fixed Window Fallacy is an error in reasoning whereby people believe they know or can know what is nice/preferred/optimal. This line of ...

Ever since being introduced to this concept, I’ve been intrigued by it and see examples of it more and more throughout life, business, and p...

When well-meaning fools lament the plethora of choices we have in a free market society, they make a crucial mistake. They ignore the necess...

While the fact is obvious that changes in regime leadership imply winners and losers, there are subtle, deeper truths that remain underappre...

Partial list of difficult, unsavory (to the third-party at least), or troubling situations that third parties commonly attempt to help or ...

Partial list of areas where there might be a market failure and I might  support government intervention: Masks and social/physical distanc...

The quick versus the dead . And a more complete review . Imagine various conversations at a board of directors meeting of a major corporatio...

Here is a message to future generations for when they find themselves in the next pandemic. This is subject to change, but you would already...