INCERTO

Taste of turtle — Where are the new customers? –Sharia and asymmetry — There are the Swiss, and other people –Rav Safra and the Swiss

(Excerpts from Skin in the Game) Sontag is about Sontag — Virtue is precisely what you don’t show

How to be a whistleblower –Delenda Monsanto — James Bond isn’t a Jesuit priest, but he is a bachelor –so are both Professor Moriarty and…

Arabs fighting to the last Palestinian –Where are the lions? –Italians don’t die easily– Make historians build rockets –Commerce makes…

Excerpted from the preface of Skin in the Game

Symmetry, symmetry everywhere — Belief and worship requires an entry fee — The Gods do not like cheap signaling.

How to Disagree with Yourself

The salesman is the boss — How to drink poison — Advertising and manipulation

Dead horse in your bed — Friendship via poisoned cake –Roman Emperors and U.S. presidents –A living enemy is worth ten dead ones

Literature doesn’t look like literature –Business plans are for suckers — Donaldo Hiring practitioners –the glory of bureaucracy–teach a…

Don’t eat their cheesecake– Meta-experts judged by meta-meta-experts– Prostitutes, nonprostitutes, and amateurs — Popper compatibility

The Static and the Dynamic — How to go bankrupt and be loved by the many –Piketty’s equals

What we have been seeing worldwide, from India to the UK to the US, is the rebellion against the inner circle of no-skin-in-the-game…

No, Salafism is not a religion — Fooled by the label — IYIs should bathe in Saudi Arabia

Even the church had its hippies –Coase does not need math –Avoid lawyers during Oktoberfest –The expat life ends one day –People who have…

(Chapter from Skin in the Game)