Overrated or Underrated is Overrated
Estimated reading time: 2 mins It’s surprising how often I’ve found myself arguing with someone over whether something is overrated or underrated. […]
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Book Summary: The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
In The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t, Julia Galef argues that we don’t need to deceive […]
Criticisms of The Case Against Education (Pt 3 — Checking the Math)
Estimated reading time: 12 mins This is my final criticism post for Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan. (Click here for my […]
Criticisms of “The Case Against Education” by Bryan Caplan (Pt 2 — Inflated Signalling Estimates)
Estimated reading time: 11 mins This is the second of three posts criticising Bryan Caplan’s book, The Case Against Education (Click here […]
Criticisms of “The Case Against Education” by Bryan Caplan (Pt 1 — it’s The Case Against Higher Education)
Estimated reading time: 15 mins (or see my conclusion for the 1-min summary) This is the first of three posts criticising The […]
Book Summary: The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan
I didn’t plan this, but my latest summary for The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time […]
Calculating the Selfish Return to Education
In The Case Against Education, Bryan Caplan walks through detailed calculations on the expected selfish or private return to education for different […]
Thought Experiment: Would You Give Up the Ability to Enjoy Food?
Estimated reading time: 4 mins Imagine a world with two types of people, each of which make up around 50% of the […]
Is it better to be WEIRD?
In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich never claims that WEIRD psychology (as in, the prevailing psychology in Western, Educated, […]
Book Summary: Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
You’re probably familiar with bad strategy. It’s full of fluff, lofty visions and desirable outcomes, with no clue on how to achieve […]