This is a really interesting and really useful read. Most of what you will read here will seem obvious, but I think you’ll be surprised at how it matches up with your habits. This might be my favorite book in this space. Sethi offers a clear guide to personal finance that will get you on […]
Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. This is nowhere more clearly in evidence than in the AMC hit The Walking Dead. How well will we do after the zombie apocalypse? Not well, I think—we’re a species that burns cars when a football team loses. If anything, watching The Walking Dead has made me wonder how […]
“Capitalism lacks romantic appeal. It does not set the pulse racing in the way that opposing ideologies like socialism, fascism, or environmentalism can. It does not stir the blood, for it identifies no dragons to slay. It offers no grand vision for the future, for in an open market system, the future is shaped not […]
Inside Higher Ed runs an article on the Koch conspiracy narrative from defenders of Democracy in Chains. So far, there are no attempts to engage with critics who have pointed to the book’s crippling flaws of interpretation and analysis. It’s just repetitions of the “hocus pocus Charles Kochus” spell from the little-known forthcoming volume of […]
“Sweetheart, I think you’re making a terrible decision. However, I am not going to stop you.” “Yay!” That’s from a not-too-long-ago escapade with my daughter, who was about to spend her money on what I honestly thought was dumb. Why, if she was making a mistake, didn’t I stop her? My kids get a weekly […]
I actually have the Evernote version of this. It’s an amazing scanner. Everything goes in here. Everything. And it comes with three months of Evernote Premium. I’ve been very happy with these: they are *very* good shoes. I participate in various affiliate programs that allow me to earn small commissions on anything you buy through […]
About ten years ago, I read a piece of advice that has definitely increased my productivity: don’t listen to music with lyrics. It’s fun to rock out sometimes when I’m doing something that doesn’t require serious concentration (like checking email), but I find that if I listen to music with lyrics I end up getting […]
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About ten years ago, I read a piece of advice that has definitely increased my productivity: don’t listen to music with lyrics. It’s fun to rock out sometimes when I’m doing something that doesn’t require serious concentration (like checking email), but I find that if I listen to music with lyrics I end up getting […]
Immanuel Church elder Matt Waldrep once posted this on Facebook: He makes an important point. If scripture has already spoken, then we don’t need to inquire further. If you’re waiting for God to reveal his will about whether you should rob a liquor store or not, the answer is “no.” No, you shouldn’t, and God’s […]
Episode number 39 of season three of Teen Titans Go! (titled “Think About Your Future”) poses an interesting question: is high time preference a way of redistributing from our rich future selves to our poor present selves? Moreover, are we saving too much or too little? At first glance, the Titans actions look absurd. However, […]
As I teach my summer class and prepare for Fall semester, I’ll be incorporating lessons from these books: A Mind for Numbers, by Barbara Oakley How We Learn, by Benedict Carey Make it Stick, by Peter C. Brown and Henry L. Roediger III How to Read a Book, by Charles van Doren and Mortimer J. […]
Over the last several weeks I’ve read Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s epic The Gulag Archipelago, which is three volumes and almost 2,000 pages of sordid memoir recounting one of history’s grimmer examples of man’s inhumanity to man. Excused by enthusiasts for socialism as the tragic excesses of Stalin’s rule, Solzhenitsyn shows that the Archipelago predated Stalin and […]
My friend and coach Jason Womack visited Samford University on December 1. He spoke to three different groups, and I made a few notes on some of the tools I use. I’m constantly experimenting with this gadget or that app, but here are the essentials. Over the next few months, I plan to put together […]
