The Two McNamaras
I enjoyed reading Oliver Kim’s article on the two lives of Robert McNamara: one as US secretary of defense and chief escalator of the Vietnam War, the other as World Bank president and crusader against global poverty. He…
History & Biography
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Everyday Abundance
I just finished reading Charles Mann’s The Wizard and the Prophet , which has to be a top-ten abundance and growth book for its description of the Green Revolution’s effect on crop yields and recounting of the failed apo…
The spreadsheet that helped remake Wall Street
“You will be hard-pressed to find a true admirer of Excel,” writes David Oks (who I first noticed as one of the Gravel Teens and is now at a16z , truly an ideological evolution for our time). But Oks is, if not an admire…