I'VE BEEN A BUSINESSMAN for almost 50 years. It's as difficult for me to say those words as it is for someone to admit to being an alcoholic or a lawyer. I've never respected the profession. It's business that has to take the majority of the blame for being the enemy of nature, for destroying native…

Miikka asked me how I read a maths textbook the other day, and I didn’t have a better answer than “badly”. I’ve mostly tried to read textbooks linearly cover to cover, and this doesn’t actually work – I sometimes end up understanding the material, but it’s usually not until long after I’ve finished…

Because land can’t be created, an LVT is the only tax that’s non-distortionary and doesn’t create deadweight loss. I hear you saying ‘what about artificial islands’—unfortunately, the sea is also land. Those are the rules of Georgism. So are mineral and oil deposits, and so forth—as no human created…

I think the Pareto (80/20) Principle accurately applies to the social difficulties of autistic individuals. That is to say, 80% of my problems as an aspie stem from 20% of my total social deficits. This speaks little of the frustration and effort involved in learning to approximate neurotypicals.…