Twenty years of posts on geopolitics, philosophy, media, investing and whatever else has my attention.
As part of World Psychopath Day, we’re taking a poll on how many people think Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, aka ScoMo, aka ProMo, aka Scotty From Marketing,…
Is it the duty of politicians to pander to the electorate like some kind of cut-rate Saturday night sex worker, dressing up in garish knock-off jewellery and offering…
Take the test and let me know what you think. Then pre-order a copy of my new book, The Psychopath Epidemic.
For the last six months I’ve been learning value investing from Tony Kynaston, who I think of as “Australia’s Warren Buffett”, on our QAV Podcast. If you’re unfamiliar…
Straws are a distraction: how the plastics industry successfully got you to blame yourself for pollution https://boingboing.net/2019/10/03/recycling-isnt-enough.html “40 years of Reaganomic sociopathy has managed to convince hundreds of…
Whenever I get into a conversation with someone about free will for the first time, they will usually end up saying something like this: “But I experience the…
I’ve always been paranoid about allowing other people to have any level of control over my business and today I got another lesson in why that’s a good…
While psychopaths have probably always been around us, in feudalist societies it would have been much harder for them to rise to positions of wealth and power. Unless…
This article on the neuroscience of trust raises some interesting questions regarding testosterone and psychopathic behaviour. One of the key characteristics of psychopaths is their lack of empathy…