On reading Plato's Republic, writing better, and another nail in the coffin of institutional publishing.
"Humanity forgets... that it is a rigor of chess masters, not of angels." —Borges
"Your business is to learn the names of programs, the long formal names, names the owners seek to conceal. True names."
"Always do what you are afraid to do." —Mary Moody Emerson
A short summary of the most remarkable economics book I've read this year, Gregory Clark's The Son Also Rises (2014)
"Life eternal is the supreme good, death eternal the supreme evil, and that to obtain the one and escape the other we must live rightly."
"The things I want are not in any country, nor in any job." —William Gaddis
And what you should do instead.
Meet the 7-foot albino who says you should petition directly the chambers of the historical absolute.
What the media won't tell you about the famous media theorist.
Can social science vindicate religion, or should we respect the Cartesian Bargain instituted 400 years ago?
“I cannot conceive any work of art as having a separate existence from life itself.”
