- Branko Milanović: To work or not to work. A modern economic take on the Red Queen’s race of capitalism. Pairs well with this question from Alex McCann.
- Alex McCann: The Case for Active Optimism. Speaking of! Yes, let’s extrapolate the transitions from agranian to industrial to information societies into this new transition to the society of slop (SoS). I still worry that those required levels of civic vigilance that we are not currently able to muster (and arguable failed at even as moved from industry to information, hence our current predicament).
- Derek Sivers: Offline 23 hours a day. A palate cleanser before the next course.
- Harry Crane: When Prediction Markets Don’t Predict: The Khamenei Resolution Debacle. Crane is a semi-professional gambler and views these new gambling devices rather favorably (see: name of his blog) but even he bristled at what happened here. There is also a follow-up.
- Sara Talpos and Michael Schulson for Undark: Do America’s Top Health Research Officials Stick Around Too Long? Yes, with interesting caveats. (ᔥJim Olds, who makes an appearance)