January 2010
12 posts
Confessing Evangelical » Science, religion and the... →
A particularly Lutheran take on the science and religion debate.
The Grand Unified Theory On The Economics Of Free... →
Redefine the market based on the benefits
Break the benefits down into scarce and infinite components.
Set the infinite components free, syndicate them, make them easy to get — all to increase the value of the scarce components
Charge for the scarce components that are tied to infinite components
Three Myths about Political Independents →
1) Independents are the largest partisan group.
2) Independents are actually independent.
3) Change in the opinions of independents is always consequential.
“Think of health care reform as being like a three-legged stool. You would,...”
– Paul Krugman - “Do the Right Thing”
3 Ways to Wrap Cords and Hoses - Fine Homebuilding... →
“Reading Seneca, Montaigne will think as if he were a member of the Stoa; then...”
– Michel de Montaigne (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
C.S. Lewis said his “ideal happiness … would be to read the [Renaissance] Italian epic - to be always convalescent from some small illness and always seated in a window that overlooked the sea, there to read these poems eight hours of each happy day.”
Source: Alan Jacobs, *The Narnian*, p. xx.
“I got little profit out of my savings: I had more to spend, but the spending...”
– Montaigne, “The taste of good and evil things depends on our opinion”
“The tendency to take offense at freewheeling religious debate is widespread....”
– Let’s Talk About Faith - Ross Douthat
“It seems that most people, even intelligent and well-informed people, are...”
– Danny Hillis, as quoted by Alan Jacobs in Text Patterns: “How is the Internet changing how you think?”