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Finding a better signal

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Praj / 0 Comment

Forgive me as I quote myself: Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education argues that employers value college degrees not because college imparts skills and knowl...

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It’s the white supremacy, stupid!

Posted on January 28, 2021 by Praj / 0 Comment

George Floyd’s death moved police brutality and mass incarceration beyond liberal activists and made them issues for all Americans. The riots and violence...

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Which brothers and sisters?

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Praj / 0 Comment

I don’t exactly know why, but we noticed the police started stopping gang members. Stopping them in the park and on street corners. We noticed more patrolling b...

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Marriage makes the grind worth it

Posted on November 2, 2020 by Praj / 0 Comment

I want to expand on this tweet from Justin Murphy: While Justin’s analysis is true, here’s another side of the story. I’m probably biased beca...

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Arrange relationships, not marriages

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Praj / 0 Comment

So at the end of my last post, I said that although 3 years ago I was gung-ho about arranging marriages, I’m now more hesitant. This post goes into why. F...

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You’re good enough

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Praj / 0 Comment

About 3 years ago my wife and I discussed how dating and marriage in her childhood church can be very similar to modern Hindu “arranged” marriages. ...

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How to help the foster care system

Posted on April 26, 2020 by Praj / 0 Comment

Last month I was happy to read Hans Fiene’s essay encouraging more people to become foster parents. My wife and I have been fostering for four years, and ...

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Talent, hard work, and superstars

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Praj / 5 Comments

Jonah Lehrer attributes success to grit and “deliberate practice” rather than talent: The first thing Duckworth, et. al. discovered is that delibera...

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Anecdotes, more evolution, exaggerations, and expertise

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Praj / 10 Comments

Another very busy week this week. Things should get less hectic next week, when I will hopefully have time to write something more substantial. Until then, here...

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All the cool blogs are doing it

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Praj / 3 Comments

A couple months ago, Tyler Cowen kicked off a “top ten influential books” list.   Ezra Klein, Conor Friedersdorf, Matt Yglesias, and Ta-Nehisi Coate...

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