This episode of Akimbo is a thoughtful look out our tendency to seek more of what we like – whether loud music or extreme sports… Read More »Podcast recommendation: Seth Godin on The Hedonic Treadmill
If you can raise your children to like and believe in themselves, and to be interested in life and other people, the rest is detail.… Read More »Educated (7): you, life and other people
How do we come to know better? There are a range of experiences (I hesitate to call them a hierarchy) that lead us from knowing… Read More »Knowing better (2): How we know
And I will show you a still more excellent way. Paul of Tarsus – First Letter to the Corinthians We often say (and more often… Read More »Knowing better (1)
A detailed plan is useful when you know what you’re doing: when you (or others) have done the thing, or when you’ve been somewhere before.… Read More »Planning vs Pathfinding
All things being equal,* a quick decision is better than a slow one. You can feel confident in making a quick decision if the decision…… Read More »Quick decisions
I highly recommend this episode of Econtalk with Matt Ridley talking about how innovation makes inventions useful by making them available, affordable and reliable. The… Read More »Recommendation: Econtalk with Matt Ridley on How Innovation Works
It’s a small thing, but it’s very thoughtful of them. Ikea (they probably got the idea from someone else) added drainage slots to the bases… Read More »Incremental innovation: coffee cups from Ikea
… views of DriverlessCroc as of 2nd September 2020. That’s 1000 views in almost exactly a month, with an average of 32 views per day… Read More »9k
Schopenhauer had quite a lot to say about reading. He liked good books, but was highly skeptical of most books, and especially of contemporary ones.… Read More »Schopenhauer on reading yourself stupid