The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle

Background : “IQ” is a stale test meant to measure mental…

The Logic of Risk Taking

A central chapter that crystallizes all my work. In forth. Skin in the Game

Surgeons Should Not Look Like Surgeons

CHAPTER from SKIN IN THE GAME

Literature doesn’t look like literature –Business plans are for suckers — Donaldo Hiring practitioners –the glory of bureaucracy–teach a professor how to deadlift –looking the part

How To Legally Own Another Person

Even the church had its hippies –Coase does not need math –Avoid lawyers during Oktoberfest –The expat life ends one day –People who have been employees are signaling domestication — You win elections by not caring about wining elections

Inequality and Skin in the Game

(Chapter from Skin in the Game)

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

How to be Rational about Rationality

[One of the more technical (and optional) chapters, at the end of Skin of the Game]

Rory Sutherland claims that the real function for swimming pools is allowing the middle class to sit around in bathing suits without looking ridiculous…

A Clash of Two Systems

The war in Ukraine is a confrontation between two systems, one modern, legalistic, decentralized and multicephalous; the other archaic, nationalistic, centralized and monocephalous

An Expert Called Lindy

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

(Background. The Black Swan explains the domain-dependence of expertise: why the electrician, dentist, are experts, while the…