An Untruthful Virtue

Modesty, a virtue the greater for its deviation from truth

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Maxima

Global and local maxima

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‘Management’

Wanting to do something v/s Having to do something

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The Myth of Revolution

Why do revolutions end up as the opposite of what they ostensibly set ought to do?

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Moving on

Improving enough to not be plagued by always needing to improve.

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Winner’s Curse

Sometimes, the price one pays is more than what something is worth.

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Unto the Last

Whether to treat the last the same as the first.

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Faith & God

This is - usually - right up there amongst the most cliché of clichéd topics, and yet, somehow, also the most popular, if one goes by how many people nevertheless seem to want to discuss it. There are few subjects...
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Lemons

The market for lemons at work.

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Irrationality

Difference of thought is too easily written off as irrationality.

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Ethics on the Assembly Line

What is rational, optimal and even ethical in an ordinary interaction is rarely so on the assembly line of interactions.

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Books that Wound

The relation between the unhappy and the interesting in writing.

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Character and Suffering

Whether character comes from suffering, and whether it’s worth suffering for.

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Causality

Causality precedes prescription

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