Many conservatives and libertarians are deeply confused about the morality
of markets. They view markets as pure and benign forces with the ability to
grant moral righteousness to any behavior that comes from them. This is
profou…

Typically, organizations tend toward a MacLeod hierarchy with three tiers:
the Sociopaths, the Clueless, and the Losers, in that order from top to
bottom.

Sociopaths, who take an up-or-out strategy and either end up at the …

In absurdist philosophy, the Absurd arises out of the fundamental disharmony
between the individual’s search for meaning and the meaninglessness of the
universe. As beings looking for meaning in a meaningless world, humans have
t…

If we classify projects into four categories by important vs. unimportant,
and interesting vs. unpleasant, we can assess what happens under open
allocation.

Important and interesting projects are never hard to staff. Unimpo…

I’ve not read much Marx. What I know of his work reduces to knowing what
others think about what they’ve heard about other people reacting to what
they think his work was.

That being said, I just finished
the Partially …

It’s stunning to me how stale one can become when they don’t code for a
while.

I just put together a quick little something in Python for hitting a Google
API, collecting results into an array, and then adding in some resul…

The iOS/Apple vs. Android/Google debate has been explored for years by
thousands of people. We know the arguments and they’re rather boring at this
point. Preference is preference, and if you like something and it works for
you, …

In all the opposition to equal marriage rights for homosexuals I find only
one possible line of legitimacy. That line says that, for whatever
reason(s), homosexuals have issues with depression, suicide, and other
mental issues signi…

I thought it’d be useful recently to take a list of email addresses, say
from sales leads, and determine how “legitimate” the leads were. Obviously
there are many pieces of information that could go into this, but the one
that I …

A bird hit my windshield on the freeway, on the way home from work this
morning. I pulled over on the next exit, and picked it’s wrecked body out of
my windshield wiper, and it opened its eye, and slowly closed it. I like to
thin…