The title of this post links to a wonderful essay by Avi Loeb.

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• Breaking the Chains

• Leaving a Legacy

• My Objective Function

• The Unmaking

• John Locke on the Mandate of Heaven

• Economics Needs to Tackle All of the Big Questions in the Social Sciences

• Defining Economics

• Does the Journal System Distort Scientific Research?

• Let's Set Half a Percent as the Standard for Statistical Significance

• Tom Gauld's Sympathy Cards for Scientists

• Martin A. Schwartz: The Willingness to Feel Stupid Is the Key to Scientific Progress

• On the Virtue of Scientific Disrespect

• On Perfectionism

• Against Narcissism