Buckminster Fuller’s philosophy has had a big impact on me. Like Viktor Frankl, Fuller discarded the prevailing wisdom of his day (scarcity in the case of Fuller, existential angst in the case of Frankl) and presented an answer so rational and human that we wonder why we didn’t see it ourselves.
Fuller basically proved that scarcity [...]
This is really a test post, to see if my RSS feed comes back properly, but I thought these charts were interesting. Is it really true that the Spanish are at the forefront of abusing every drug except ecstasy?
A couple of years ago, someone e-mailed me saying that they had taken my JavaScript Outliner (sample) and built a bunch of additional features into it. I would really like to try doing more of my outlining in a web browser now, and I like the Radio UI. However, I can no longer find the [...]
I recently finished reading Confessions of an Economic Hitman. In this book, John Perkins writes about his career as a self-described?Economic Hitman?. Essentially, Perkins worked for a contracting company where he produced fraudulently inflated economic forecasts to justify large world bank and IMF loans to governments purchasing his company’s services. His company was the (erstwhile) [...]
Marginal Revolution points to a study whichattacks themyth that prosperity leads to democracy.
With respect to China, I’m increasingly puzzled that we ask the question at all. Many Chinese are convinced that they do vote for their leaders. I read about elections all the time in People’s Daily.
Of course, I’m just making a point, since [...]