A Note on Humility
As mentioned before, I recently performed some major maintenance on the site. In the process, I found myself reading through a lot of my old posts. I found some to be really valuable in certain ways, but others I’m frankly a little disappointed in myself to have written. I offer two examples, each of which featured unnecessary swipes at people for whom I actually have quite a bit of respect. While neither of these posts is particularly biting, especially by the often less-than-civil standards of the web, I don’t think that either properly expresses the respect I have for Messieurs Cowen and Krugman, nor do they display a level of humility in accordance with the possibility that I may well have been wrong (a probability that almost all people systematically underestimate). I hope to do better in the future– let’s call this post a commitment strategy.