#54 On surviving for a living
Dear Jamie, In 2009 I went on a trip to Europe. The year before I had read the life-turn-upside-downing 4 Hour Workweek and made a bunch of friends from all
The work of Jamie Freestone and Mathew McGann
Dear Jamie, In 2009 I went on a trip to Europe. The year before I had read the life-turn-upside-downing 4 Hour Workweek and made a bunch of friends from all
I realised after I sent the letter that I might have been wrong to say you dismissed it because it was Jesus. What I meant to say is that you
Dear Mat, Apologies for lateness. This time my excuses are: homelessness and food poisoning. Thanks for the comments on my hastily drawn up golden rule for politics, namely:
Most new conjectures are wrong. Yes good. Most old conjectures are wrong. Also fine. This is because new and old are pretty much unbiased subsets of conjectures in general. However
Dear Mat, I disagree with your conjecture. Most new conjectures are wrong. That’s definitely right. But I disagree that the inverse holds: that therefore more old ideas are right. I think there are
To take Nassim Nicholas Taleb seriously one first needs to unsubscribe from his Twitter feed, then un-like him on Facebook and then read his books, especially Antifragile and Black Swan: his
The conviction of the six Italian scientists in October 2012 raised the hackles of scientists and rationalists everywhere, fearing a repeat of the trial of Galileo. As the facts of