Six of my favorite reads from 2017
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The Death of Graduate School?
Is Congress to blame for the “death of graduate school” or is it universities’ failure to heed price signals?
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The Discontinuities between the Generations in History
A few gems from Sir Herbert Butterfield’s 1971 Rede Lecture at Cambridge University
The Lies of Vietnam
Some thoughts on the Ken Burns and Lynn Novick documentary “The Vietnam War”
Favorite Books of 2016
My favorite five books from the year
Gethsemane
Thoughts after the election of Trump
How Will You Spend Your Energy?
On life and the decision to pursue entrepreneurship
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Light Blogging
In the space of 10 minutes this morning, while trying to get out the door for our child’s first pediatrician appointment: Baby decided he was hungry again so had to nurse Baby blew out his diaper Baby peed all over himself whilst being changed Dog barfed on floor All on a couple hours’ sleep. Light …
The Age of Entropy
…we are on the cusp of an eternal purgatory. It will be a world full of confusion and instability. The age of entropy will be a time of restless disorder, an aimless but forceful hostility to the status quo… How serendipitous. A week after posting Entropy: The Defining Characteristic of Global Affairs, I stumbled across an article …
Life Satisfaction
I’m working on a longer post about the world that I hope will be of interest to folks. But in the meantime, I came across this BCG chart on life satisfaction by region that seemed quite interesting: