From Steven Rattner of the NY Times: We’re Making Life Too Hard for Millennials TO some, millennials — those urban-dwelling, ride-sharing indefatigable social networkers — are engaged, upbeat and open to change. To others, they are narcissistic, lazy and self-centered. Saddled with debt and thin paychecks, millennials are delaying purchasing cars and new homes, low… Continue reading We’re Making Life Too Hard for Millennials
Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter
This pretty much upends the left’s approach to education: Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter. The left wants to believe that costly intervention can make kids smarter, and that everyone is blank slate, but the empirical evidence doesn’t bear itself out. It also agrees with my criticism of ‘cognitive enhancers’ Unfortunately, human biology restricts our… Continue reading Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter
Uber Worth $50 Billion, Leaves Doubters in the Dust
Uber is now worth $50 billion What happened to the California ruling that was supposed to be the demise of Uber? It was way overblown, the pertinent details ignored in the leftist anti-Uber cacophony. Obviously, Uber can’t make every driver an employee, and no judge would ever decree that they do so. What if someone… Continue reading Uber Worth $50 Billion, Leaves Doubters in the Dust
Getting Rich Quick In the Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is perhaps the most productive and innovative place in the world Silicon Valley is like an HBD success story, a region that through the free market and meritocracy rewards the best and the brightest for their contributions to society. People in Silicon Valley get rich through IQ, skill, hard work and competence –… Continue reading Getting Rich Quick In the Silicon Valley
We’re Not Broke
The documentary We’re Not Broke went viral on Reddit. The synopsis is that the Republicans are wrong about America being broke, and that there would be more money for social programs and infrastructure if tax loopholes and other problems were fixed. Despite being on the right, I agree with the ‘left’ that America is not… Continue reading We’re Not Broke
The Value of a Skill
Scott Adams of the Dilbert Blog asks: If someone offered you $100,000 to take a class for a few weeks, would you do it? I believe most of you would, assuming there is nothing terrible about the class itself. But if I change the offer to say you have a 30% chance of making $100,000,… Continue reading The Value of a Skill
Autism/Asperger’s the New ‘Cool’?
Yesterday the site was hacked and someone posted made a bogus post about poetry, which I deleted this morning. Self-hosted WordPress is a magnet for hackers and spammers. A post on Hacker News about an autistic Wikipedia editor, Guillaume Paumier, went viral, generating thousands of page views for Paumier’s site and heaps of laudatory approbation… Continue reading Autism/Asperger’s the New ‘Cool’?
The Daily View: Coding Camps, Billionaires, Airport to Nowhere, Liongate
No, billionaires don’t drive economic growth – and crony billionaires strangle it The article gets the cause and effect wrong. A billionaire by himself doesn’t create economic growth; a person becomes a billionaire by creating value, which creates growth. Some people, through their inventions, ingenuity, effort, IQ…etc, create more economic value than others, and these… Continue reading The Daily View: Coding Camps, Billionaires, Airport to Nowhere, Liongate
Nature Beats Nurture
An interesting post from Vox Nature beats nurture The “Blank Slate” theory is dead. It was never anything but political philosophy and science killed it. Every nominal justification for human equality is being gradually eliminated, one by one, as scientists revisit hypotheses that have long been passed off as pseudoscientific facts. This is true. The… Continue reading Nature Beats Nurture
Free Will – Welfare Liberals vs. Neo Liberals and HBD Conservatives
From Sam Harris’ “Free Will” says liberals understand role of luck It’s pleasing to my progressive self when modern science confirms one of the foundations of Democratic/liberal political philosophy. Such as, that we humans don’t have free will. It’s an illusion. Such is the message of Sam Harris’ captivating new book, the pleasingly short (66… Continue reading Free Will – Welfare Liberals vs. Neo Liberals and HBD Conservatives