Po and Gus know what’s up in Jackson Hole
Here’s a nice quote from Huang Po, a 9th-century Chinese Zen master: The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see. What this means to me is that it is unwise to cling to your ideas, because your ideas are eventually going to run [...]
There is no security
It should be obvious from the previous two posts that this website is very much about ignorance of a certain kind. Even the wisest and most learned of us is radically ignorant in the way I’m talking about. Now, this may be misunderstood to mean that anything should be allowed. As an example: If we [...]
It’s not about me
I must make a confession: I love traditional stained-glass windows. They remind me that I didn’t invent Christianity and that it will be around long after I shuffle off this mortal coil. As the chair of the physics department at the college I used to get lots of junk mail with some really entertaining stuff [...]
