In life, few things are truly zero-sum. A zero-sum game has winners and losers. If you believe that in order to make $100, someone else needs to lose $100, that’s zero-sum. While there are often tradeoffs in life, in most situations having a winner doesn’t mean there needs to be a loser. Unfortunately, I think […]
Friday Links 08-10-02
From the Web The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives – An interesting talk about the five pillars of morality across human cultures and why liberals and conservatives disagree. In Praise of Salaried Employment – Tim Clark has an interesting article about the joys of not working for yourself. I’m a big fan of entrepreneurship, […]
Is It Better to Read Books You Disagree With?
In the last two weeks I’ve been reading Friedrich Hayek’s, The Road to Serfdom. Hayek argues in this book that any form of collectivism (whether left or right) inevitably leads to a totalitarian state. My views are mostly libertarian, so I agree with almost all of the arguments Hayek presented. Reading through the book, however, […]
Help Support Entrepreneurship: The Curry BizCamp
I don’t often get a chance to promote charitable causes on this website. However, I’ve recently become involved with fund-raising for The Curry BizCamp. The BizCamp is a program dedicated to training underprivileged kids the basic skills of entrepreneurship and starting a business. Although I don’t come from an underprivileged background, being introduced to entrepreneurship […]
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