Technology “Facebook, Palantir, Cambridge Analytica, Amazon, the Internet Research Agency, Google: these are, every one, the children of Simulmatics” – Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 August 2020 Simulmatics is a relic of its time, an artifact of the Eisenhower-Kennedy-Nixon Cold War;...
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud “A number of Rava’s rulings require intention as a necessary condition for establishing liability for both civil and ritual violations” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 August 2020 Where early generations of Babylonian Amoraim employed a system of strict liability in deciding...
Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud, Talmud “The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic jurisprudence and legal conceptualization” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 August 2020 The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic...
Television “…long before the age of quarantine, kids under the age of six spent a crazy amount of time indoors, watching television, a bleary-eyed average of fifty-four hours a week” Author Drew Kaplan Date 24 July 2020 Half a century ago, before “Sesame Street,” and long before the age of quarantine,...
Anti-Semitism “…the most morally instructive thing about studying the Nazis now: we can see how tightly the elimination of the Jews was bound to a hatred of cosmopolitanism” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 July 2020 In the nineteenth century, they arrived, before anyone else, at an understanding that, in...
America, Politics in America, Races in America “The point of a race-riot commission…is for the government that appoints it to appear to be doing something, while actually doing nothing” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 July 2020 White mob violence against black people and their homes and businesses was the far...
Alcoholic Drinks “I, like many who enjoy an adult beverage then and again, have to ask myself fairly regularly about my relationship with it. Is it healthy? Is it proper?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 July 2020 I, like many who enjoy an adult beverage then and again, have to ask...
Work “when you see someone who appears to be a disciplined person what you’re really seeing is a person who has actually just acquired a few very key disciplines in a specific area” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 June 2020 There is no such thing as a disciplined person and, even if there were,...
Jobs/Professions, Work “A true professional knows what they know, knows what they don’t know, and knows the difference between the two” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 June 2020 Most difficulties in real estate transactions (from simple misunderstandings all the way to costly...
Marketing “The second principle of lead generation messaging is your message must make an offer to get a response” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 June 2020 The second principle of lead generation messaging is your message must make an offer...