What’s next

At the moment, I’m reading three books that are all linked together:• Brad Delong’s Slouching Towards Utopia,• Crabgrass Frontier by Kenneth Jackson, and• Robert Gordon’s Rise and Fall of American growth. I’m fascinated by how electricity into the home, the advent of the internal combustion engine pushed the US so far forward at the start of… Continue reading What’s next

Consequences – positive and negative

When I think consequences, I usually jump to the negatives. That shouldn’t always be the case. In this article, Tyler Cowan gets into how AI might have positive consequences:https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/05/might-ai-possibly-boost-social-trust.htmlI tend to share his optimism. If we can get to point where the AI algorithm is transparent, or open sourced I can see a lot of… Continue reading Consequences – positive and negative

ESG

As a society are we trending away from ESG? At least in the short term? With all the Tech layoffs, generally from companies that are profitable, but just want to make more money by saving cost on people, are we back to shareholder capitalism? Is Adam Smith’s invisible hand guiding us. Are Friedman, von Mises… Continue reading ESG

Philosophy

I’ve always been interested in this subject. But from an external perspective of “how would one ever master it?” I ran across these articles from Helena de Bres via the Point Magazine and found them quite interesting to read:Part 1: thepointmag.com/examined-life/help-academic-philosophy/Part 2: thepointmag.com/examined-life/whats-your-philosophy-of-life/Part 3: thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-meaning-of-life/Part 4: thepointmag.com/examined-life/the-consolations-of-analytic-philosophy/ This paragraph, from Part Two, really piqued my… Continue reading Philosophy