Category Archives: Life

An interview with Watts Humphreys

Grady Booch spent 18 hours talking to Watts Humphreys about his life and life’s works. Definitely worth a read — set aside a few hours.

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A sort of bleg.

Not wishing to gum up the front page with a very personal post about the next stage of my life, I have instead posted it to my private blog. I’d be interested in getting Troppodillian feedback. Continue reading

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On a Hero

As far back as Frederic Bastiat’s Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas (That which is seen and that which is unseen), economists have been aware of the difficulty of getting people to look past the immediate and highly visible, through to widely distributed, hard to distinguish, long-term effects of decisions and policies.
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