Magnitude Matters

I have just returned from a family vacation in Cape Cod which began with a brief, 3-day stay in New York City. We flew into NYC and then ren...

I know you want to do good, and I know you want to think that wanting to do good combined with doing something results in doing good. Unfort...

It is not because it brings about better outcomes for the best. It is because it is the most reliable method for bringing about better outco...

The more local something is the more essentially socialistic it becomes. I think the best way to describe this is that size/complexity has a...

Ben Thompson writes : Swift is doing the exact same thing, which is why the story of her breakup with Big Machine and the question of who wa...

At first it was gradual, and then all of a sudden it was acute. I could be blamed for putting myself in such a position--at least it was som...

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...

A more competition-friendly society will be more efficient (extract more wealth from a given level of resource consumption) which will make ...

Consider: Are some populations less susceptible to (severe) infection? Is there a genetic, cultural, experienced condition that could be...