Oct 9, 2024
I renamed the blog again. Now it’s called “Reason in Revolt”, which is a lyric from an English version of the Internationale. It’s available at reasoninrevolt.net. All the old URLs still …
Sep 10, 2024
Tonight I went to the Acquired podcast live show. Acquired’s tagline is “Every company has a story: Learn the playbooks that built the world’s greatest companies — and how you can apply them as a …
Aug 30, 2024
Laputa, from Gulliver's Travels. Home of the hopelessly rational people who "If they would, for example, praise the beauty of a woman, or any other animal, they describe it by rhombs, circles, parallelograms, …
Aug 24, 2024
In the ant community, each worker performs its proper functions. There may be a separate caste of soldiers. Certain highly specialized individuals perform the functions of king and queen. If man were to adopt …
Aug 6, 2024
The introduction of the cipher 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps
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