Political things
I receive unsolicited emails from an agency called “Conservative Direct.” The latest letter announces this online course on “totalitarian” novels, taught by the president of Hillsdale College.
Texts: 1984, Brave New World, Darkness at Noon, That Hideous Strength.
Conservatives and liberals may inhabit different echo chambers, but at least they read the same books.
(Extracting different lessons, of course.)
What else is “common ground?” Johnny Cash, I’ve been told.
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I thought this sociological piece on Elon Musk was insightful.
Too often, I see people denouncing Musk as a numbskull. He’s not that. I see other people praising his management style to high heaven. That’s wrong, too.
He succeeds at cutting costs when (a) he understands the industry (especially, its technology) and (b) he owns the stakes and assumes the risks for certain key decisions. But that doesn’t make him a good person for deciding how to cut costs across something so multiform, with so many “stakeholders,” as the U.S. government.
(He may or may not be evil, but that’s not what the piece is about.)
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What does the government do? I look forward to reading these essays.
Texts: 1984, Brave New World, Darkness at Noon, That Hideous Strength.
Conservatives and liberals may inhabit different echo chambers, but at least they read the same books.
(Extracting different lessons, of course.)
What else is “common ground?” Johnny Cash, I’ve been told.
♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦
I thought this sociological piece on Elon Musk was insightful.
Too often, I see people denouncing Musk as a numbskull. He’s not that. I see other people praising his management style to high heaven. That’s wrong, too.
He succeeds at cutting costs when (a) he understands the industry (especially, its technology) and (b) he owns the stakes and assumes the risks for certain key decisions. But that doesn’t make him a good person for deciding how to cut costs across something so multiform, with so many “stakeholders,” as the U.S. government.
(He may or may not be evil, but that’s not what the piece is about.)
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What does the government do? I look forward to reading these essays.