Tag: experiential learning
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Need to remember
In one of Bloomberg’s more casual podcasts, someone said: Welcome to 2023, when nobody wants to work and everything is ten times harder than it should be. Exactly. Services that used to take days to schedule now take months. Stores are switching to self-scan because they can’t keep employees. BUT: I need to remember that…
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Experience is the only teacher
I enjoy stories informed by real experience in unfamiliar areas. Mattingly is discussing why media doesn’t cover religion properly. He starts with the basic social divide that outsiders can see: Modern journalists are educated elites, thus extremely secular. He also mentions several internal factors that outsiders couldn’t imagine. 1. Editors hated dealing with religion because…
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Four things I couldn’t have guessed
Just for my own purposes, collecting four important things that I learned from others in recent years. Most of my learning comes from painful experience. I couldn’t have figured out these four facts on my own, and I’m grateful to the people who revealed them. 1. Manweller’s Rule. Elections only count when they don’t count.…
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More establishment flip
Lately I’m impressed by some ordinary establishment types who seem to be grasping the truth of our predicament, while the alleged independents have either converged to Gaia or veered off into denser and denser underbrush. This ordinary economist, Steve Hanke, SEES the war situation and the public “health” situation with stark clarity. “This war against…
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