Peter Gobel

“Jeder ist seines Glückes Schmied.”

Goodhart's law is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".[1] It is named after British economist Charles Goodhart, who is credited with expressing the core idea of the adage in a 1975 article on monetary policy in the United Kingdom:[2] Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse on

In that spirit, here is a list of 10 things I think we could all do to unschool ourselves this summer: Read recklessly. Read promiscuously. Let your books talk to each other. Read at Whim. Treat your books as toys. Read trash! Read stuff you don’t think you’re supposed to! Go to the library and take wild chances on stuff you’ve never heard of. (Don

’ll be bounding ever-forward on a trusty pair of New Balance Fresh Foam X More Trail v3s, the most absolutely Of Our Time stupidly-named shoe you can find. But, the toe box is wide, and damn if those things don’t push you on. Good, luggy Vibram soles, too. Inside, I’ll be replacing whatever joke of an insole they come with, with a SuperFeet Green i

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

—Charles Bukowski