Christian Baaki

Genuine reform requires capping the growth rate of costs across all major government health programs, ideally implementing them together, and reallocating some of the savings to reduce, rather than increase, the number of uninsured

It’s not only unnecessary and unfair to burden a declining share of workers with higher taxes to pay out benefits to a growing share of retirees, but such a policy is particularly offensive when those on the receiving end of an income transfer are better off than those providing the transfer. Shifting to price indexing for calculating initial

A key problem of recent government behavior is deficit spending. Deficit spending forces the government to continually borrow money to finance new debt and refinance existing debt. As the government borrows more, it must offer higher yields on Treasury securities, which in turn pushes up mortgage rates. Over the past 20 years, 30-year mortgage

Monetize after the magic

Value first, price later.

Freemium → instant output → emotional “wow” → habit → conversion.

Tips for implementing:

• Delay paywalls until after the “aha moment.”

• Charge only for meaningful upgrades (collab, export, brand control).

Every breakthrough — every invention, every industry, every new frontier — began with a handful of extraordinary individuals free to take extraordinary risks. Washington led men into battle at 22. Carnegie was building his steel empire by 30. Meriwether Lewis charted the American West in his twenties. Sam Colt patented the revolver at 22. Palmer

Very powerful self-reinforcing elite networks across politics, civil service, academia, and legacy media telling themselves that the answers to everything are essentially: higher taxes, more state control, ‘trust and support the civil service’, and all alternatives to SW1 consensus are ‘extremist’.

As our ability to concentrate has collapsed, I’ve become more and more convinced that it is the superpower we should long for. Sustained focus is the engine that connects dots and builds things. To concentrate with the intensity of a chess grandmaster on the object of your choosing is to find out what you are capable of—what you are capable of

Your flashlight is already bright enough to achieve your most ambitious goals, and to my knowledge there aren’t many things you can do to actually increase the intensity of your flashlight’s beam much. This is why most of our energy should be directed towards improving our environment to ensure that our flashlight simply remains fixed on the right

It is true that an increase in gold production can and does generate fluctuations in the price and production structure. However, contrary to the artificial expansion of paper or digital money, an increase of gold is based on production and will not result in an exchange of nothing for something. It will not produce the diversion of wealth from