institutions spread power and opportunity. They enforce property rights for a broad cross-section of society, allow free entry into markets and politics, and constrain...
The core idea
institutions spread power and opportunity. They enforce property rights for a broad cross-section of society, allow free entry into markets and politics, and constrain...
Connected
Stoicism
of Citium / Epictetus / Seneca / Marcus AureliusFocus on what you control, accep
The Socratic Method
questioning to expose assumptions and clarify thinking.
Thucydides Trap
power vs ruling power — structural stress makes conflict the default.
Burden of Proof
must prove what? Burden of proof answers that question. The party making a claim
Cargo Cults
the surface without the substance produces ritual, not results. Cargo cults take
Cave of Plato
we take for reality can be shadows on a wall. In Plato's Republic, prisoners are