How to Have a Bad Career
Solid advice.
Finance
Three ways to solve problems — Andreas Fragnerl
2 and 3 work great if you are wrong. “there are three ways to approach a problem: Move the world towards the desired state Change your perception of the current state Change your desired state” https://andreasfragner.com/writing/three-ways-to-solve-problems
Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right Round…
A lot of stereotypes have deep history. “E.W. Barber (Women’s Work, 29-41) suggests that this division of labor, which holds across a wide variety of societies (though commercial textile production was often done by men in pre-modern societies, something we’ll… Read More »Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right Round…
100 Million vs. 100 Billion
It is a huge difference.
Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part II: Big Farms
Water is expensive. Especially when you are poor. “Apart from land – which was actually not a major limiting factor in the village – the main forms of agricultural capital were ox plow-teams (something I’d expect) and wells (something I… Read More »Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part II: Big Farms
Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part I: Farmers!
This still applies today. “I led in with all of that risk and vulnerability because without it just about nothing these farmers do makes a lot of sense; once you understand that they are managing risk, everything falls into place.… Read More »Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part I: Farmers!
Why You Shouldn’t Trust Confident People
Or just try to think before you put an estimate of confidence.
WTF Happened In 1971?
Bad money. https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVa: Subsistence and a Little More
How to save in middle ages? “Some amount of moveable property might be worth keeping safe as security against catastrophe or as a supply for payments – fabric was a good option for this, being immediately useful, valuable and portable… Read More »Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVa: Subsistence and a Little More
We Are ALL Susceptible to Arrogance, Vice, and Villainy. The Hunn-Beating Proverb.
Nice list of advice. [Jocko Podcast] 485: We Are ALL Susceptible to Arrogance, Vice, and Villainy. The Hunn-Beating Proverb. #jockoPodcast https://podcastaddict.com/jocko-podcast/episode/196024128 via @PodcastAddict