From the Web The Two-Party Swindle – Are the interests of politicians and voters aligned? Eliezer doesn’t seem to think so, and as he argues in this post, the average right and left-wing politicians are more similar to each other than they are to voters from their own parties. CEO’s Read More Fiction – A […]
Only Suckers Follow the Rules
This a guest post written by Chrissy of The Executive Assistant’s Toolbox. I’d like to make a confession: I like rules. I’m not kidding. I really love them. I adore boundaries and policies – anything that helps me believe I’m on-track. There’s a certain comfort in knowing that I’m doing what I’m supposed to be […]
Quotes From Atlas Shrugged
Over the last two weeks I’ve been churning through Ayn Rand’s epic novel, Atlas Shrugged. The book is close to 1200 pages long and covers Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism. The story follows a man who said he would, “stop the motor of the world,” and did. Rand’s philosophy centers around the idea that it is […]
Is School Wasting Your Money?
Which is better: self-education or going to school? Are self-educators deluding themselves, believing they can teach themselves better than professors who have studied in their field for years? Are people who go to school just wasting their money on subjects that could be learned faster and more efficiently from a trip to the library? In […]
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