Blake Masters took notes. Tyler Cowen linked to them. I recommend them.
Blake Masters took notes. Tyler Cowen linked to them. I recommend them.
Apr 21 2012
Valeria Jacqueline Caplan, my first daughter, my fourth child, was born one day early yesterday. Baby and mother are both doing very well. As usual, I welcome my child's birth with a reading from the book of Julian Simon:One spring day about 1969 I visited the U.S. AID office on the outskirts of Washington...
Apr 20 2012
Alan Blinder, in today's Wall Street Journal, has an interesting piece attacking Supreme Court judges who would actually seriously consider finding the recent health care law unconstitutional. It's titled, "Life Liberty, and the Pursuit of Insurance." There are so many interesting parts of this piece that I'll quote ...
Apr 20 2012
READER COMMENTS
infopractical
Apr 20 2012 at 4:15pm
On the topic of when people are happy not to have complete college (or any other level of school)…
When you’re creative enough to create yourself into a monopoly, that seems like the right moment to leave the competition — to stop chasing credentials.
Of course, we should guard against encouraging the wrong people to leave the competition, and we should find the right ways (20 Under 20, perhaps) to encourage people to step aside from the competition to explore their creative success.
Mike W
Apr 24 2012 at 7:50pm
Ah yes…I love this kind of talk. Takes me back to the dot.com days…so much energy and excitement…and hype. Academics like this stuff because they think they understand it…it’s so cerebral, so organinzed…they think, “oh yeah, I get that”…an they think they are involved. Hellooo, it’s a sales pitch guys…you’re being played. What Thiel is describing has much more to do with what goes on in any busines…constant review, continuing adaptation, lotsa luck and sheer panic. What Thiel did can’t be taught…you’re naive to think you “get it”.
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