Corrections, revisions & notes on the things we thought we knew.
What the philosopher-emperor understood about scarcity that modern economists are only beginning to formalize — and why your attention is the only currency that truly matters.
Continue readingTracing the line from Saharan caravan trails to the Bretton Woods agreement — a story of trust, scarcity, and the strange things humans have chosen to call valuable.
Continue readingRevisiting Keynes's most underappreciated metaphor and what it reveals about the fundamental irrationality embedded in every market prediction.
Continue readingThe final proposition of the Tractatus isn't a retreat — it's an invitation. What happens when philosophy reaches its own border and decides to sit down.
Continue readingSeparating legend from archaeology — and asking whether the real tragedy of Alexandria was the fire, or what we chose to remember about it.
Continue readingSmith used the phrase exactly once in The Wealth of Nations. The mythology that grew around it would have baffled him.
Continue readingEvery map is an argument. From medieval mappae mundi to modern satellite imagery, the choices about what to include — and what to leave out — tell us more about power than geography.
Continue readingA meditation on trivial disputes, the psychology of sunk costs in conversation, and what heated debates about pineapple on pizza reveal about human nature.
Continue reading"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing — which, incidentally, is also the starting point of good economics."— Loosely after Socrates