Sam Enright
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Econ and philosophy undergrad | Emergent Ventures | Formerly @joinpatch_ | Writing at @_fitzwilliam
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Ludwig Wittgenstein gatecrashed John Maynard Keynes' honeymoon, and he wouldn't leave for six days
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I am pleased to announce the launch of the Fitzwilliam, a new publication about policy, philosophy and literature from an Irish perspective. Subscribe to receive posts by email!
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Bizarre fact: the architect who designed the Brooklyn Bridge (John Roebling) was Georg Hegel’s favourite philosophy student. Hegel inspired him to come to America. Hegel is the reason we have the Brooklyn Bridge
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I wrote a guide to recreational maths videos online. I do realise how nerdy that sounds:
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Today I ran a teeny tiny conference about the history of economic thought in Adam Smith's house, and we got to read a first edition of the Wealth of Nations! Peak life experience
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Astonishingly, it looks like the Irish government is about to ban kidney chains *by accident* – a fact that literally no one had noticed until
@ptr_mcl
started writing his piece for
@_fitzwilliam
(link below)
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Overheard in my econ lecture: "Mate, I already know all this, I've seen the Big Short"
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I will be teaching on a new course at the University of Edinburgh, Global Priorities, which gives a broad overview of the world's most pressing problems, drawing heavily on
@tobyordoxford
's 'The Precipice'. Lectures are 10-12 every Thursday, and are open to the public!
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@MurielBlaivePhD
@NickCohen4
The 2013 abridged edition of Robert Skidelsky’s Keynes biography
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I recommend playing Tradle! It's Wordle, but instead of guessing words, you guess the country based on what it exports:
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Martingale processes in statistics are named after the martingale betting strategy (in which you keep going double or nothing until you eventually win)... which is itself named after a town in France whose inhabitants were noted for being particularly naive and stupid
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My new post for The Fitzwilliam about the YIMBY movement
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My new startup is mission-driven and focused on executing quickly (guillotine manufacturing)
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New for the Fitzwilliam: Craig Palsson on why Haiti is so poor, how it diverged from the Dominican Republic, and why it's so hard to change
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My website, , now has over 2,000 subscribers! Thank you all!
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The final section of my series on Ireland's Covid response:
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Had a great time today talking to a class of MSc students about how very very not good lead poisoning is
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Yep, my literature review was exhaustive (it exhausted me)
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Great to see
@_fitzwilliam
's new piece on organ donation make it to Scott Alexander's links post this month! Congrats
@ptr_mcl
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The rhyming of history: the direct descendants of Napoleon and the Duke of Wellington now run rival private equity firms
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I was just on the Conversations with Tyler podcast to discuss… *checks notes*…. Chinese food. It was an honour to be the Irish idiot at a table of esteemed foodies!
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If you, or somebody you know, want to get free tuition in secondary school maths, my mother will do so!
Hi all, I am running FREE maths grinds for all secondary students for the whole school year. There is no catch; I received funding to cover my teaching hours so I can provide classes to unlimited number of students. There is full information on my website.
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Got my buddy
@seanbrocklebank
a French government bond from 1889 used to finance the Panama Canal for his birthday. Turns out that's a thing you can do!
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Charles Haughey:
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Great night at the
@WorksInProgMag
event in Dublin last night, including a neat physical copy of this excellent piece!
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I am hosting a meetup next Friday the 23rd at 7:30pm in Parnell Heritage Pub in Dublin – hope you can make it!
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The first in my four-part series about what went wrong (and right) with the Irish Covid response:
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“How long did you think it would take you to write ‘The Art of Computer Programming’?”
“Certainly I thought it would be finished by the time my son was born.”
“How old is he now?”
“55”
Gem of a podcast with Donald Knuth:
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Didn't get into Oxford boys, applying was a fun process nonetheless
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oh please god no... please... please don't tell me they put the good friday agreement in comic sans... please lord...
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just one more book bro… i just need to read one more book and all my personal and professional problems with be solved… just one more book bro please…
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Irish excellence
Insane statistic:
78% of noise complaints lodged against Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were made by a single household.
Reminder that NIMBYs are a very loud minority of people.
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Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or Bertrand Russell why 1+1=2
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I really respect that the 2004-2021 flag of Afghanistan... itself contained the flag of Afghanistan. The only recursive national flag
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Whoever made the art display at my local Malaysian restaurant seems to have never visited… planet Earth???
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Someone has sent me a LinkedIn connection request just because we have the same name… I wonder is he going to make a big groupchat or something
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Update: Napoleon wrote a romance novel too!
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A new blog post I wrote about housing regulation and the YIMBY movement:
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In my new piece for
@_fitzwilliam
, I speculate about economic stagnation, long-term growth, and whether science is slowing down (link below)
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The first guest post on the Fitzwilliam from my friend Gytis Daujotas (
@gytdau
): Ireland's unique promise for nuclear power
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Counterpoint: today I saw someone working on a MacBook in a Starbucks with a t-shirt that (I swear to god) just said 'Friedrich Hayek'
Smashing capitalism with a $12 Starbucks, $200 Ray-Bans and a $1,500 MacBook
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A frankly absurd amount of my current life and friends I owe to the startup accelerator
@joinpatch_
– if you are between 16-21, applications close in a few days!
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Part 3 of my Covid series, about how the vaccines were poorly managed and regulated
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Irish monetary policy has all been downhill since Nixon destabilised the Kerrygold standard
This is what the vault inside the Irish Federal Reserve looks like
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Beautiful tidbit: Charles Richter (inventor of the earthquake scale) once referred to logarithmic plots as a "device of the devil"
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New blog: What I've been reading, watching, and thinking about so far in June
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In my new piece for
@_fitzwilliam
, I respond to some of the objections left by our readers to 'We Were Promised Flying Cars...', my essay about technological and economic stagnation (link below)
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If Star Trek the Next Generation is to be believed we are in for some BIG news in the next few months
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In my new essay for the Fitzwilliam, I discuss the confused and confusing history of Ireland's military neutrality. Featuring a surprise appearance of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty... (link below)
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Some highlights from 100+ hours browsing Wikipedia rabbit holes:
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For those asking: this comes from the 2013 abridged edition of Robert Skidelsky’s Keynes biography
Ludwig Wittgenstein gatecrashed John Maynard Keynes' honeymoon, and he wouldn't leave for six days
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In a new piece for the Fitzwilliam,
@F_McCullough
discusses the history of nuclear power in Britain – a victim of mismanagement, overhype, and some bad luck
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In my new piece on the Fitzwilliam, I discuss the history of the partition of Ireland with lessons for institutional reform and how public opinion shifts:
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When solving an integral, don’t forget to add the +C term, which represents the difference between your answer, and the correct answer
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I just realised that Santa in Irish translates to 'December daddy' and nobody growing up thought this was unusual or noteworthy
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On the 30th of September, we are running the inaugural Irish Substack meet-up. We have a great line-up (see below), and all are invited! 1st floor, Parnell Heritage Pub
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According to the Polish government, smiling is an "unnatural facial expression"
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My friends do not deserve how funny I am in the whatsapp groupchats
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Extremely proud to see my friend and mentor
@stephenkinsella
be appointed to advise the Taoiseach! (Irish prime minister)
UL professor Stephen Kinsella to be appointed economics adviser to Taoiseach Simon Harris
Professor Kinsella will balance the role with his commitments to the University of Limerick, while taking a break from journalism
#StudyatUL
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Aristotle, noting that air, water, and earth correspond to three types of animals, concludes that there must be fire monsters on the moon:
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Incredible: the third highest ranking monk in Tibetan Buddhism lives in County Cavan, Ireland
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I will be at this pop-up event hosted by our friends at Stripe Press on August 12th – come say hi!
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I'll be a teaching assistant on this course – I can confirm it is very cool and that
@seanbrocklebank
is a mensch; thanks for the vote of confidence Hannah!
There is a very cool undergraduate at
@EdinburghUni
that I've just discovered.
It's called 'Global Priorities' and looks at the world's largest problems and how to solve them.
Courses like these should be more common. Degrees go too narrow, too early.
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In my new post, I recount my recent trip to India – and give some observations and musings about Indian history & politics (link below)
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@patrickc
@dwarkesh_sp
In case you missed it, his episode was Jung Chang was incredibly moving:
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Some upcoming guest posts include:
-The case for nuclear in Ireland
-A guide to how the Irish electrical grid works
-A history of anti-corruption efforts in Peru
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Devastated to learn the Penguin reprinting of ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ does not use Baskerville font…
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I finally understand why people publicly list their emails as "example [at] gmail [dot] com". Since putting my email on my website, I've had dozens of Indian companies ask me if I want to buy ball bearings (?)
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In China, it was not accepted that the Earth was round until the 17th century
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Very excited about this – Street Plans is the only workable proposal I've seen to address the housing crisis in Ireland, and this is being run by some trusted friends of mine!
📖🏡Solving the housing crisis 🏡📖
Ireland has one of the worst housing shortages in the world. Yesterday we published our proposals for how we could start to fix that: street plans.
Let’s dig into how Ireland could build more homes and ensure local support 🧵👇
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If you enjoy my writings, you may want to follow me on Goodreads, where I have rated just shy of 500 books:
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"The constraints on construction are not primarily economic, but regulatory: local people do not capture enough of the benefits of development to win their support"
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Ironically, my Covid series is delayed because I now have Covid...
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New
@_fitzwilliam
piece:
@JamieRohu
explains why bogs are so significant (and contested) in Ireland
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@katrinadlc
They had a fun discussion + gave background about that Mastoianni paper on Very Bad Wizards, one of my favourite podcasts:
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Mosquito the insect and the Mosquito Coast are etymologically unrelated (despite indeed having a lot of mosquitoes)
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One of the very best podcasts
@tylercowen
has recorded
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Thanks Patrick!
Very good four-part analysis of Ireland's COVID response from
@PsalmEnright
in the Fitzwilliam: . (Parts 3/4 not yet published but you can subscribe.)
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For
@_fitzwilliam
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The ‘go on a first date without mentioning that graph of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia’ challenge (impossible)
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I am a true intellectual, I actually made it to chapter 2 of the Power Broker
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Incredible: part of the reason why America doesn't use the metric system is that, in 1793, the kilogram (the actual, physical object that defined it) was kidnapped by pirates
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