Bureaucracies and armed agents preclude you from hiring, renting to, selling to, or inviting into your home or business the majority of the earth’s population without near impossible approval processes. I can think of no greater violation of human rights and dignity.
Category: Education Through Entrepreneurship
Success Comes When You Do Statistically Risky Things
Someone shared a video with me recently called, “You’re not special enough to NOT go to college.” It was about some statistics of average employment rate among those with degrees vs. those without. The message was, “Don’t be an arrogant idiot. Stats show that you need a degree to succeed.”
How to Be Deep and Wide
Going deep into a single thinker doesn’t mean you can’t be a broad generalist. Think about it, if you read five books on one subject you will know more about it than 95% of the population and be able to converse with specialists. Yet it’s only five books. You can repeat this tons of times for whatever topic/thinker strikes your fancy. It’s so much more fruitful than a single book in passing.
The Welfare of Society is not the Welfare of the State
Society and the state do not share the same progress chart. The welfare of one doesn’t positively correlate with the welfare of the other. In fact, most of the time, there is an inverse relationship.
From “Come and Take It” to “Go and Make It”
What if we stopped attacking people for a cause and started attracting people to a cause? What if we became creators instead of mere critics and conquerors? Rather than waging war—either figuratively (in arguing) or literally — what if we channeled all of our passion and energy into disruptive acts of creation?
Economics Helps You Deal with Difficult People
You wake up to the realization that you have an important meeting in 30 minutes. You leap out of bed, throw some clothes on, grab your keys, and rush out the door. You’re halfway to your car when you see it.
It’s not a moment of zen, but of economics.
Somebody has slashed your tires.
If a Worldview Makes You Unhappy, It’s a Bad Worldview
Facts don’t do anything to my enjoyment of life on their own. I could add or remove facts all day long without changing it. Only the meaning and beliefs I form about facts, and the frame through which I interpret them, generate my fulfillment.
The Data Don’t Matter
My kids have some clear challenges and opportunities because of their digital immersion. None of those changed because someone did some research. My kids’ unique screen time pros/cons existed before I read stats from a study, and they exist after.
Hard is Not the Same as Hate
The hard stuff in school is stuff we’re forced to do against our will and rarely has any connection to our own goals and desires. We learn to see escape from hated stuff as equal to escape from hard stuff. This is tragic.
Crops, Currency, and Crypto
Peoples in places with a single staple grain, harvested at the same time once each year, were easy for states to subjugate and coerce. Partly for this reason, most humans resisted extensive grain farming, even several thousand years after it had been invented, and opted instead for what Scott calls a complex ‘web’ of nutrients.