Epsilon Theory
Subscribe

Log-in

  • Epsilon Theory
    • Content
      • ET Origins
      • EToons
      • Called It
      • All ET Notes
    • Topics
      • COVID
      • Crypto
      • Inflation
      • Life & Career Advice
      • The Long Now
      • Meme Stocks
      • Men of God in the City of Man
      • Narrative and Metaverse
      • Notes from the Field
      • Nudge
      • Raccoons
      • Things Fall Apart
      • Work
    • Who we are
      • About Epsilon Theory
      • Contact Us
    • Your Profile
      • Log-in
      • Subscribe
      • Log Out
      • My Account
  • Fiat News Dashboard
  • ET Forum
  • ET Podcasts
    • Breaking News
    • Cursed Knowledge
    • ET on Tape
    • YouTube
    • Epsilon Theory Podcast
  • ET Intro
    • Epsilon Theory Manifesto
    • First the People
    • Things Fall Apart (Part 1)
    • The Long Now, Pt. 1 – Tick-Tock
    • All ET Intro
    • Epsilon Lexicon
  • ET Pro
  •  
  • Subscribe
  • My Account
    • Log Out
  • Log in
  • About Epsilon Theory
    • Contact
  • Podcasts
  • All ET Content
  •  
  • Fiat News Dashboard
  • ET Forum
  • ET Intro
  • ET Pro
  •  
epsilon-theory-logo-white-1000px

Tag: Notes From The Field

Rust and Blight

In an orchard, it isn't always easy to tell the difference between rust and blight. The same goes for our cultural institutions. Some should be prun…
Rusty Guinn September 11, 2019
7 Comments

A Song of Ice and Fire

We are the human animal. We are non-linear. We ARE a song of ice and fire. It’s a song that has built cathedrals and fed billions and taken us to…
Ben Hunt May 27, 2019
13 Comments

This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things

Part 13 of the Notes from the Field series discusses the Narrative Machine, which can help us see the invisible memes that drive our political behavio…
Ben Hunt May 22, 2018
0 Comments

The Icarus Moment

We live in a Cartoon Age, an era not of alienation per Karl Marx, but of alienation per Groucho Marx. What’s the cause, what’s the future, and wha…
Ben Hunt March 21, 2018
5 Comments

Good Job!

This is Part 11 of Ben's Notes from the Field series. I don’t need to calculate a Sortino ratio to know if my dogs are doing a Good Job. Same with a…
Ben Hunt March 1, 2018
0 Comments

Too Clever By Half

The inevitable result of financial innovation gone awry, which it ALWAYS does, is that it ALWAYS ends up empowering the State. When too clever by half…
Ben Hunt February 5, 2018
3 Comments

The Three-Body Problem

What if I told you that the dominant strategies for human investing are, without exception, algorithms and derivatives? I don't mean computer-driven i…
Ben Hunt December 21, 2017
4 Comments

Pecking Order

The pecking order is a social system designed to preserve economic inequality: inequality of food for chickens, inequality of wealth for humans. We ar…
Ben Hunt November 29, 2017
0 Comments

Clever Hans

Part 7 of Ben's Notes from the Field series reminds us that you don’t break a wild horse by crushing its spirit. You nudge it into willingly surrend…
Ben Hunt October 26, 2017
0 Comments

Sheep Logic

In Part 6 of the Notes from the Field Series, Ben observes that we think we are wolves, living by the logic of the pack. In truth we are sheep, living…
Ben Hunt October 5, 2017
1 Comment

Always Go To the Funeral

There’s a pose that very sick farm animals sometimes take when they’re near death, where they lie down and twist their head way back into their sh…
Ben Hunt August 23, 2017
1 Comment

The Arborist

In Part 4 of the Notes from the Field Series, Ben identifies how the natural lines of a tree and shaping the tree to follow those lines over time is a…
Ben Hunt August 10, 2017
1 Comment

Horsepower

There is no animal more important to the ascendancy of Western Civilization than the horse, and no invention more important than the horse collar. Aft…
Ben Hunt August 3, 2017
0 Comments

The Goldfinch in Winter

Part 2 of Ben's Notes from the Field series, in which he considers the question: what can a bird teach us about value investing? To everything there i…
Ben Hunt July 14, 2017
0 Comments

Notes From the Field

What does farming have to do with investing? Quite a lot, actually. In this first of a series that takes on a life of its own, Ben discusses bees and …
Ben Hunt July 7, 2017
1 Comment
© 2023 - Epsilon Theory
  • Terms of Service
  • Disclosures
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie policy (EU)
  • Epsilon Lexicon
Manage Cookie Consent
We use cookies to optimize our website and our service.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}