Medicines, corporations, logic
One limitation of superficial fast thinking is that it cannot consider different influences at the same time. Either the influence under discussion determines something completely, or it plays no role…
On employees and managers
What is the difference between managers and ordinary workers? Obviously it is wealth, power and character traits. But is it possible to find a simple, universal criterion? I suggest the…
Future of smart devices
We often talk about smart mobile devices and their destructive effect on the human brain. It is clear that there are a number of issues that need to be addressed…
Who won in Ukraine?
From Reflections on Elites, War and Peace, published in 2022: “We can consider any end to the war that provides Russia with clear guarantees that Ukraine’s territory will not be…
Conservative nostalgia
Every time something improves, we lose something else. Take, for example, a person who has been in a wheelchair for years and then starts to walk. Is that a huge…
Kingdom and coup
I sometimes say (inspired by Curtis Yarvin) that to call most of the countries of the European Union democracies is like calling the Netherlands a monarchy. This means that formal…