Principles
Tell a wise person or else keep silent
Goethe
A good free-market society is one in which you can only get rich by making other people better off
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky
The Shirky Principle
on some occasions when I have asked him for his impression of events, he has calmly and deliberately replied: “There are some encouraging signs of polarization.” Nothing flippant inheres in this remark; a long and risky life has persuaded him that only an open conflict of ideas and principles can produce any clarity. Conflict may be painful, but th... See more
For Polarization
Christopher Hitchens on the goodness of polarization
Vicariously is a terrible way to live