Sublime

To win a war, it helps to have three things: more troops than the enemy, intelligence about the enemy’s plans, and superior technology. Alliance-building and patron–client relations helped leaders amass more troops and often learn about the enemy’s plans—and this is true whether a society is preindustrial, industrial, or postindustrial.

No dictating.

Joaquin Aguirre

to knowledge. He was distrustful of established knowledge and what was written in books. He placed little credit in authorities. He preferred to reconstruct everything by himself, in his head. His method closely resembles that of Einstein, Thurston, and Grothendieck. It is, of course, System 3, the slow and careful dialogue between intuition and lo

Money balances are private property but the institution of money is a common pool resource, in arguably exactly the same way that a stock of fish might be a common pool resource, even though fish fished by fishermen have clearly become private property.