Richard Sprague

I can’t remember who recommended this book to me, but as you’ll see by the end of this post, I feel compelled to write down what I learned...

Some people have an influence that is difficult to see in the usual standards of pageviews, book sales, citations. Seth Roberts , I think, w...

Like many people, I first heard about him back in 2006 through a chapter in the best-selling book Freakonomics . His strange habit of tracki...

I liked John Durant’s book (recommended by Steven Pinker) The Paleo Manifesto  so when I heard about his new PaleoCon conference, I had to...

My favorite podcast, Econtalk, is always worth a listen. Here are my takeaways from this week’s interview with Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT an...

The Apple Macintosh was launched 30 years ago, which seems like ancient history because of course it is, but it’s fun to reflect a little on...

My favorite way to give a sense of the size difference between the US and China is to ask this question: the biggest city in California is t...