Greenblatt on Politics in Shakespeare
Context stimulates creative endeavour. When Shakespeare was writing, Queen Elizabeth was aging, frail and without a successor; Spain continued to…
Scheidel Compresses Inequality
Scheidel, Walter. The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stome Age to the Twenty-First Century. 2017.…
My Library
Essentials, Foundational The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn, 1962. A conceptual framework for understanding how paradigm shifts in…
My Meaning of Life
To my family, friends and communities, I offer all the love, support, information, stimulation and engagement I can. Every day,…
Opening Leads in Bridge
The obvious: there are three components to playing bridge – bidding to establish the contract, defence, and the play of…
Everywhere Folly
Originally published at The Financial Pipeline “For an investor, the value of Tuchman’s The March of Folly lies in the…
Shatter Fragile
Beyond resilient and robust, Taleb proposes that Antifragility is the preferred quality in a crisis. Adversity makes you stronger. Resilience…
Behavior Explained
Review of Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, originally published in The Financial Pipeline. Kahneman is must for every…
Develop your Palate
Who knew? Robin Dando, Cornell University Sensory Evaluation Facility, explains that taste buds have a lifespan of about ten days…
Doubles
So, 39 different “Doubles” according to The Bridge Guys, all of them requiring Partnership Agreements and Full Disclosure to those…