Category: Education Through Entrepreneurship

I used to wonder why George Orwell was so obsessed with language. I would discuss this with a good friend who shared the concern for preserving the meaning of words. Definitions change, meanings change, and new words emerge to take the place of the old. So what? I think I get it now.

“Acme Co. wants to see your anonymized browsing data for the past 30 days and will pay you $2 for it. Allow, deny, or counter offer?” I’m not scared of data being the new oil. But I’d love to see ways people can more easily capture the value of their own.

Movies lie. In my nearly two-score years on this earth, every time I’ve witnessed a tornado, flood, hurricane, fire, or […]

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You don’t want to spend the upside being grumpy and paranoid. But damn, the downside looks so inevitable and severe. […]

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The use of naked violence is wrong. Hiding naked violence behind psychological torture, manipulation, propaganda, guilt, shame, fear, and claims […]

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Populism is a mess. Constitutional attempts to restrict it are weak. To quote Mises, the “Planned Chaos” of governments is taking a toll. A lot of people seem to be searching more ancient traditions for sense and stability. They long for a clearly structured world that harmonizes with the hierarchies in nature and human nature. Some of them long for a king.

If you were in the deepest reaches of space, engulfed in millions of cubic miles of darkness, a pinprick of […]

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If you speak – if you make any sound, if your existence, you living your life, you merely being or breathing – broadcasts any kind of signal that disturbs the lurking devourers, you get killed. This is speech. This is expression. This is living out loud. This is being your beliefs.

“Expert” implies some kind of institutional expert-conferring apparatus. Such intuitions are subject to Public Choice dynamics. They will always inevitably reward group loyalty and conformity and become cartelized and myopic. Always. Every time. You cannot prevent it with good people or good intentions.

My friend TK Coleman coined the term tough minded optimism a decade or so ago. The idea is to recapture […]

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