Explaning success
The period immediately after the end of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia was exceptional in that there was a functioning infrastructure, a population with considerable savings, a highly educated workforce…
Some extra time
Majid Nawaz is a former Islamist radical who later joined the narrow band of Muslims who are trying to create a more sophisticated form of Islam. He was interviewed by…
How are you going to govern people without ambition?
Young people are not interested in jobs as bosses, writes the Czech edition of Forbes, and HR experts have been saying the same thing for a long time. It’s just…
The mother of all conspiracy theories
I often deal with conspiracy theories (or rather criticisms of them) here, but this time a great observation by Curtis Yarvin. Not from his recent articles, but from his older…
On rationality and the pursuit of happiness
Personally, I prefer to talk about irrationality in the context of wealth accumulation. I think it makes sense to acquire more and more possessions if it increases our happiness in…
On the healthy fragmentation of personal capital
Is it possible to eliminate the “addiction to mammon” and therefore the tendency to corruption that goes with it? Eliminate it completely, no, but mitigate it, yes. As the American…