Weekend Reads #421

A collection of cross-disciplinary thoughts, perspectives, and opinions

All the President’s Enablers: a devastating portrait of an ailing, geriatric leader surrounded by mendacious aides and grasping family members (Know what you are thinking but NO it’s not 47!) - Link

VisibleAlpha KPI Guides - Link

Trust Erosion; Knowledge Erosion; Capacity Erosion; Algorithmic Substitution. Algorithms bypass institutions, but institutions were our only mechanism for managing complexity at scale. - Link

Fannie and Freddie Get a Guarantee - Link

We can make understanding and enjoying Bayes’ theorem a perfectly normal thing not just for quantitative geeks, but for more-or-less everyone. - Link

Wherever you are in life, get lost. It’s the only way to know if you truly want to be found. Getting lost is a vital part of the human experience - Link

While knowledge has no particular time or place and can be transmitted, experience is tied to a specific time and place and can never be repeated. For the same reason, it also can’t be predicted. Exactly those two dimensions—the unrepeatable and the unpredictable—are what technology abolishes. - Link

Ancient India: Living Traditions An exhibition at the British Museum celebrating the shaping force of ancient India - Link