David Sager

Recently thinking about land navigation. Land navigation training usually involved a some number of points you needed to navigate to, and time constraints. Some courses added some extra drama, but the jist is largely the same. Now, time is a factor, so you want to move fast enough, but if you don't apply the techniques well, you're going to be lost or simply not hit your objectives. That's your Tuesday thought.

The Austrian argument “a mud pie requires labor but is worthless” attacks a straw man. Marx knew perfectly well that labor must be socially necessary and produce use-value.

The dream of China surpassing the U.S. as the world’s largest economy is fading. In 2021, China’s GDP was about 78% of the U.S.; by 2024, that share had fallen to roughly 64%, back to around 2017 levels, with the gap between the two economies doubling in just a few years.

It's been 20 years since you've heard this but somehow you still knew which sound was coming next

So many of our problems could be fixed by properly funding public education.

the 10:1 thing is funny because the lowest amount any CEO could be on is like £250,000 a year which yes is an obscene amount of money for anyone, so everyone should get a fucking grip about it as a policy

a rigorous “discipline” to become part of academia. There is no rigorous tenure review process here, Most of them are just most any old therapist who is willing to take a relatively low paying gig teaching. It’s not a badge of credibility about a specific subject matter.