I forget which YouTube video turned me on to it, but I have been reading Cicero’s De Officiis off and on for the last few days. Having recently gotten to the end of Book I, wherein Cicero identifies what he believes are the most important virtues, I find myself disagreeing. In paragraph 157, he says:… Read more: Duty

Why do we pay a journeyman more than an apprentice? Tradition? Goodness of our hearts? No, of course not. We pay a journeyman more than an apprentice because we expect to get more from the journeyman than from the apprentice. A journeyman (presumably) knows more about the craft, doesn’t have to spend so much time… Read more: Leverage

Welcome to The Library, a new section I’ve created for personal essays of a more structured nature than my normal ramblings. While I can’t guarantee that I’ll be very prolific here (Constitution 3.0 has moved to Jira, by the way, so that I can more flexibly interrelate all the concepts), the goal is for me… Read more: The Library: Introduction