‘Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World’ by Anand Giridharadas
Anand Giridharadas, an insider, punches holes through what he calls ‘MarketWorld’, the system of events, firms, thought leaders, philanthropists and policy makers who see market-based...
Ethical creep
It’s not the last ethical slip that gets you, it’s the first…. Ethical creep (my phrase) is the slow moving process that characterizes how most...
Random Notes from ‘Inadequate Equilibria’ by Eliezer Yudkowsky
For people more disposed to iconoclasm than conformity – inadequacy analysis (understanding that incentives can create inadequate solutions, solvable on a local level but rarely...
Quasi-circular economy or <1%, >60%, >80%
The thesis is that a circular economy will require growth in material consumption (primary and recycled materials) of less than 1%, a recycling rate greater...
Millennials – same same but different
Source: Bachelors Degree Center...
‘Fifth Ward: Friendly Fire’ by Dale Lucas
Sci-fi and fantasy has long been a forum for exploring how humans interact and how societies expand and contract. Tolkein saw the carnage of WWI...