Nudging State, Noble Lies
In the world of Nudge, everyone is an ad man, and the government is just the biggest, baddest ad man of them all.
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A Truth That’s Told With Bad Intent
A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
Our narratives of COVID-19 are all lies.
They are lies of a…
First the People
This is not a chronicle of errors and mistakes made during COVID-19.
This is the story about the inevitable, simultaneous failure of each of the ins…
The Long Now, Pt. 3 – Wink
I believe that we are on the cusp of the Long Now becoming irreversible. Or at least irreversible without a cataclysmic Fall.
Why? Because they have …
Even When I Lie
There are three reasons a person becomes a liar: he believes that he must, he believes that he may, or he believes it serves a Greater Truth.
Wall Street’s Merry Pranks: Things that Matter #4
The libertarian paternalism of a nudge culture in finance has created an industry of investors who care about fees but have forgotten about taxes, tra…
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…
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…