This is so true. “Given his personality, he strikes me as exactly the sort of very intelligent person whose assumes that their mastery of one field (effectively science-and-engineering, along with magic-and-persuasion, in this case) makes them equally able to perform… Read More »Collections: The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate
It is the same with management. “Kings and emperors need what Hannah Arendt terms power – the ability to coordinate voluntary collective action – because they cannot coerce everyone all at once. Indeed, modern states have far, far more coercive… Read More »Miscellanea: Thoughts on CKIII: Royal Court
Various ways to look at power. “vassals are also not vassals to a title but to a person; a duke with two ducal titles who is deprived of one loses no vassals because they do not belong to the title,… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Crusader Kings III, Part I: Making It Personal
Diseases helped colonized Americas but saved Africa in a way. “Rates of disease mortality among European soldiers stationed at the relatively less malarial port-and-fort posts they maintained (which we’ve discussed in this series) in the period period to the Scramble… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II Part III: World’s Fair
World is scarier the more you know.
Power rules them all. “What is at work here is not the Congresses themselves and certainly not law (indeed, the individual Congresses could be startlingly inconsistent), but rather balance of power politics. The pressures of anarchy aren’t restrained, but instead… Read More »Collections: Teaching Paradox, Victoria II, Part II: The Ruin of War
Is it working or just lowering wages artificially?
Science helps to solve issues but is not always needed.
Everything has costs and potential benefits (or harm). Giving a one hour talk to a company of 200 can cost you 30k just in terms of salaries. There is hidden costs in terms of work not being done. And the… Read More »Cost/Benefit
Engineers doing shit for millenia.