A Note About Randomness
How Making the Irrational Decision Sometimes Pays Off (Big) Nicholas Frederick Brady was Secretary of the Treasury in the 1990s during...
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Jun 29, 2021
The NCAA: An Organization After The Commodore's Own Heart
Last week at the College Baseball World Series (CWS) the NCAA decided to send N.C. State packing. Their decision was announced at 2am EDT...
Jun 19, 2021
On Not "Getting It"
Questioning How Conclusions are Reached Conclusions are often determined regardless of alternative arguments. Why is beyond my depth...
May 14, 2021
On the rise and fall of societies
One reason societies rise is multiple generations work and sacrifice to build technologies and infrastructure. Eventually generations are...
Apr 27, 2021
On Indifference
I came across an article on indifference written by a popularizer of Stoicism. This well-known author has done a service in terms of...
Dec 3, 2020
Monopoly III: Buffett (the Opioid Profiteer?) and A Magnificent Counter-Role Model
It may be more important to have counter-role models than role models. These are people who show you the inverse, what not to do. Not...
Nov 16, 2020
Thoughts for University Leaders on Posterity
(Confidential Draft Excerpt from Intelligence Hath No Party) The Student Loan Crisis: Subtly Compelling the Transfer of Deferred Income...
Nov 12, 2020
The Commandeering of Press Freedom
Imagine for a moment the following faux conversation between a political master strategist and his operative. From: [The Operative] To:...
Nov 10, 2020
Monopoly II: The Doer-Describer Problem — Muckrakers and The Standard View
The following is an excerpt from a larger worker in progress, Intelligence Hath No Party. “the basis of popular government during a...
Oct 30, 2020
Monopoly I(b): Response to Rushkoff Essay
What follows is a response to The Biggest Digital Companies Are Decimating the Economy by Douglas Rushkoff. It comes from an August 2020...
Oct 27, 2020
Monopoly I: (Re)Normalizing Bad Arguments—USA v. Google
Neither I nor my firm own shares in Google. I do not have any ties to (nor do I desire to be an apologist for) Google. This piece is the...
Oct 25, 2020
Gould's Library
The following is an excerpt from Intelligence Hath No Party. If It Were Obvious It Would Not Be Insightful (What We Have Missed by...
Jan 31, 2020
The Problem with the term "Evidenced Based"
Every so often you hear some hotshot, usually the corporate or government type, say something like "we want to be evidence based." The...
Jan 30, 2020
The Right People
The people who will mean the most to you are the ones who stuck with you, or who you stuck with, in challenging and difficult Periods....
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