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White Man’s Paradise

Everyone’s a little bit racist It’s true. But everyone is just about As racist as you! If we all could just admit That we are racist a little bit, And everyone stopped being So PC Maybe we could live in – Harmony! – Avenue Q nb: in this post i intentionally entirely ignore gender issues [...]

Having Standards

Beggars can’t be choosers. ~ Anon For the vast majority of humanity, a recurrent problem in life is the relative scarcity of opportunity. This problem exists in many fields, for example investment, romance, and edification, but I find that nowhere is it more striking than in the labor market. Labor economists are well acquainted with [...]

The Myth of Universal Competence

“Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit [...]

Getting Into School

Today was an interesting opportunity for me to jump from the Back To School mentality even further back, to the point when we are Getting Into School. Giving four consecutive university admissions interviews, meeting four superficially similar but deep-down-unique individuals, telling my own story and spinning my own college experience four different ways (Was it [...]

My Daily Success Worksheet

When I graduated from college a year and a half ago, I undertook a self-guided tour of G. Richard Shell‘s Literature of Success course and began creating a “Daily Success Worksheet“. I paused when I ran into the 48 Laws of Power and had no idea where it fit in my grand scheme of who I [...]