Discipline is Destiny: 25 Habits That Will Guarantee You Success
The ancients were fond of an expression: Character is fate. It means that character is deterministic, that who you are determines what you will do. Self-discipline is one of those…
The Midlife Crisis
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/09/the-midlife-crisis.html This paper documents a longitudinal crisis of midlife among the inhabitants of rich nations. Yet middle-aged citizens in our data sets are close to their peak earnings, have typically…
The Discernible Reality of a “Force of Evil”
by Andrew Bard Schmookler Evil: Lost and Found Over the centuries, for people whose worldview was governed by the religions of Western civilization, it was reasonably straightforward to conceive of…
Why do Singaporeans like hiring maids?
https://qr.ae/pvOMkm I would not say that Singaporeans “like” hiring maids. Rather, they are forced to employ helpers. Singapore is a very expensive city to live in. Having lived a couple…
A Cosmic Tarantula, Caught by NASA’s Webb
NASA's James Webb Space Take a moment to stare into thousands of never-before-seen young stars in the Tarantula Nebula. The James Webb Space Telescope reveals details of the structure and…
*The Rise and Fall of the EAST*
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/09/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-east.html The author is Hasheng Huang of MIT and the subtitle is Examination, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology in Chinese History and Today. Forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2023. Excerpt:…