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Klein organizations

Klein organizations

In a Weekly Digest in April, I posted a link to Explaining Tech's Notion of Talent Scarcity. In my head, I implicitly linked this to Burton Klein's classification of firms: Type 1: “Happy warrior rationality” is associated with ideological outbreeding and is commonly employed in making

Hacking Galileo Book Review

Hacking Galileo Book Review

Hacking Galileo by Fenton Wood is many things: an adventure, a lament for an age now lost, even a manual for subverting obsolete technology. This book is for the adults who once were the spergy GenX and GenY kids who are the stars of this book. The kids who built

The Long View 2009-02-22

The Long View 2009-02-22

In the modern era, during times of severe stress, society and the state tend to merge, not pull apart. Maybe that is the defining characteristic of modernity, and of every era like modernity.

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-05-12

WBH Weekly Digest 2023-05-12

READING LIST THREAD History books that are both fascinating and informative. Will update regularly. pic.twitter.com/jI1UtdpDZv — The Dissident Review (@Dissident_Rev) August 16, 2022 Found himBook reviews and literary criticism of adventure stories, along with an archive of John J. Reilly’s The Long ViewWith Both HandsBenjamin EspenThe

Found him

Found him

Training for the modern age

Training for the modern age

Causal analysis

Causal analysis