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Book Summary: A Hacker’s Mind by Bruce Schneier

This summary of A Hacker’s Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society’s Rules, and How to Bend them Back by security expert Bruce […]

If, like me, you’ve been watching US politics recently and wondering how it got to be the way it is, you might […]

[Estimated time: 10 mins] The unusually good pictures in this post were all drawn by my very talented friend James. You can […]

This summary of Why Are the Prices So D*mn High? Health, Education and the Baumol Effect seeks to explain why it seems […]

Estimated reading time: 12 mins This is my final criticism post for Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan. (Click here for my […]

Estimated reading time: 11 mins This is the second of three posts criticising Bryan Caplan’s book, The Case Against Education (Click here […]

Estimated reading time: 15 mins (or see my conclusion for the 1-min summary) This is the first of three posts criticising The […]

I didn’t plan this, but my latest summary for The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time […]

You’re probably familiar with bad strategy. It’s full of fluff, lofty visions and desirable outcomes, with no clue on how to achieve […]

This summary of Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir explains how scarcity changes the […]