Hardy-Littlewood

On Picking Winners

I believe that the venture capital industry is a grand achievement of the affluent society. We have succeeded in commoditizing capital to a degree unimaginable to the aristocratic societies of the past. And that’s just for ventures — the retail credit system of the United States is and remains…

On Core Banking: Buying and Selling

War stories today.

One of the more interesting sales experiences I have had is with core banking software. I have been involved in both buying and selling it. It presents a very interesting example of the process Herbert Simon calls…

On Childlessness

Fecunda culpae saecula nuptias 
primum inquinavere et genus et domos; 
hoc fonte derivata clades 
in patriam populumque fluxit…

The Ultrastability of Knowledge

ChatGPT, poetically, struggled to understand what the statues of…

Encountering Toynbee

I’ve finally gotten around to following up my study of Spengler by reading though his companion heavyweight, Arnold Toynbee’s A Study of History. I will reiterate that I started this blog to investigate where and how civilization nurtures the life of the mind. Almost all serious inquiry on…

LLMs Build Information Antibodies

Your company’s corpus is factually inconsistent. This is a feature…

Goats in the Argan Tree

“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more…