The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

0. Dear [redacted], It’s been a while since we spoke. You’re finishing high school and starting college soon, no? Very good. On...

It's been a running theme of mine for a while that prospective parents should invest less in each child, and have more children instead ...

In the financial world, it is a reliable rule of thumb that the largest and most lucrative forms of arbitrage will be those that don't s...

In the modern world, much parental investment in their children is wasted. Parents would almost certainly be better off investing less per c...

As I’ve written about in the past, by my reckoning the direst problem of our time is that the west is not having enough children to repla...

One of the important axioms of organisational development is that if you want an organisation to be successful and sustainable, you should m...

An ongoing question I've talked about a few times before is that at least some of our toughest social problems are really technology pro...

Let me ask you, dear reader, a fairly straightforward question. Suppose that you and your wife or husband are about to have a child. All e...