Philosophy Political theory Zen and the art of entrepreneurial capitalism Ken Parish June 30, 2008June 30, 2008 Many years ago, Robert M. Pirsig's hippy cult novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was one of my favourites. A few weeks ago...
Missing Link Uncategorised Missing Link missing again Ken Parish June 30, 2008 While some members of the Missing Link team have subscribed their selections and others have done so partially, others (where are you arts people?) haven't...
Uncategorised Is Barry Jones obsolete? Don Arthur June 29, 2008 Barry Jones is a human search engine. Crawling over thousands of pages of words and numbers, he commits the data to memory and indexes it...
Economics and public policy IT and Internet Why can’t Linux beat Windows? Nicholas Gruen June 29, 2008 OK Geeks, I have a question for you. Tell me where my reasoning is wrong. Linux is in many respects a superior operating system to...
Economics and public policy Education Life Joshua Gans and game theory on parenting Nicholas Gruen June 27, 2008June 28, 2008 About a year ago Joshua Gans showed me some draft chapters for a book on parenting at which he'd been working away. To use an...
Economics and public policy Good Question Barry Nicholas Gruen June 27, 2008 Peter Martin highlights an excellent column by Barry Hughes, but the part of the column I'd stress is not the idea that the RBA shouldn't...
IT and Internet Steer clear of Optus Wireless Broadband Nicholas Gruen June 26, 2008 I think I may have spoken too soon in my praise of Optus Wireless Broadband in this recent post - well the absence of a...