How Much Can You Tax Billionaires?
And how wealth works.
Society
The Free Market Lie
Regulations can actually help.
Why a Social Media Ban Won’t Save Teens
The kids are alright.
Two Types of Famous
You can be famous like Kevin Hart. Most successful and most known comedian today. He is very good comedian but he has also made a lot of compromises and low quality stuff as the result. He made a choice to… Read More »Two Types of Famous
Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians
Carthaginians were badass. “The Carthaginians inflicted more casualties on the Romans in a single day than all of the successor states (a label which does not include Epirus, so no Pyrrhus here; worth noting the Carthaginians beat him too) managed… Read More »Collections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part I: Finding Carthaginians
Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?
If something does not make sense, follow the money. “Intuition fails because normal people think of a building as a building, when in the majority of cases, a building is not a building, but a financial product. Behavior that makes… Read More »Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?
Shame them, shun them, ban them, beat them!
It always comes down to culture and values. “You can’t turn a cheat into a scientist by making a rule against cheating. The most important “rigor-enhancing practice” is caring about getting things right, and without that, nothing else matters.” https://www.experimental-history.com/p/shame-them-shun-them-ban-them-beat
The Worst Orbit
Physics is weird.
The F-35 Is a Masterpiece Built for the Wrong War
You can loose a war while being technologically superior. “Wargame after wargame exploring a Taiwan scenario has reached the same conclusion: Most aircraft losses happen not in the air but on the ground. Airbases across the Western Pacific sit within… Read More »The F-35 Is a Masterpiece Built for the Wrong War
How Not To Design A Country
Don’t be USA.