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What you get when you order a cheap government
When I worked at a startup, I learned some tenets of startup wisdom. Here’s one: you can make a high quality product, or you can make a low-cost…
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What I learned at a comic con
Or, how to be a nerd
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January 2024

Working hard or hardly working
Hunger and the length of a work day, in the Stone Age
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November 2023

Things didn't have to be this way
A Qui Ante Nos manifesto
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Scott Olesen

September 2023

Units of measure
Pecks, bushels, and the story of Mohenjo-Daro
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August 2023

Bread and subways
Two things only, the people desire
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July 2023

The American county
New Jersey, Virginia, and the Holy Roman Empire
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Vikings didn’t need therapy
Icelandic sagas and existentialism
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June 2023

The American housing shortage
A collective action problem, like OPEC or Yucca Mountain
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Juneteenth
With excerpts from Lincoln and Douglass
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Blamelessness
In the Bible and in the US federal government
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Roman gladiators didn’t use toilet paper
Covid toilet paper shortages, and snippets the history of hygiene
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