'Continuous Improvement is a way to do rigorous N=1 studies' is a great observation.

Rigorous n=1 studies are underrated.

“All press is good press, even bad press” only works when what you care about is the number of people in favor, regardless of how many you antagonize.

It’s true if you sell a product to a small segment.

It’s completely false if you sell societal change.

(But of course,…

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If it were me, I would have sent a letter with “Thank you, your taxes paid for the education for ~2 kids, the maintenance of 300m of roads, one month of our soldiers’ salary, etc. High five!”

($75k about 1/29M of US tax revenue; back of the napkin calculations)

It's like the 'Just Stop Oil' activists who, instead of striking Oil Producers, strike Oil Paintings.

Narcissist activists who care more about scoring in-group points than creating real change (whereas real change-makers build – products, relationships, understanding, etc.).

MY THREE BIPARTISAN POLITICAL PRINCIPLES

1) Don't instate policies our enemies would celebrate.

2) More important than high or low spending is efficient spending.

3) Policies should explicitly mention their assumptions so that, if they are falsified, we can roll them back.

The Italian Health Minister said today it wants to mandate that Italian schools study the Mediterranean Diet for one hour a week (not a typo).

In the light of this announcement, let's revisit educational debt and educational opportunity costs ↓

Trade a flow for a stock and find out

(what instead? optimize not for lifestyle but for lifestyle *growth*)

Anticipating the protests, a reminder that “I spend hours doing something I wouldn’t pay $1/y to do” is not the flex many think it is

It’s true that Europe took a different tradeoff than the US. That’s fine. What’s not fine is that it’s operating WAY LOWER than the Pareto Frontier and Pareto Optimality for its chosen tradeoff.

A core assumption underpinning modern education is “what are opportunity costs anyway?”

For example, “all degrees should last the same duration independently of the complexity of the underlying field, what are opportunity costs anyway?”