"People make themselves appear ridiculous when they are trying to know obscure things before they know themselves." (Phaedrus, Plato) I originally wrote most of this post as the first post I was going to write, but I got so excited about the models that I published that one instead and this one was left with the other 15 in the draft state. Imagine you are preparing for a fight, like a championship fight -- your entire reputation is staked on the outcome of this fight. How wo

I recently watched the Vice News Tonight hour long show on the Paradise Papers. If you have HBO I highly recommend you give your time to this episode. If you don't have HBO, maybe try one of those free trials and still give it a try and then binge watch Game of Thrones while you are at it. You can also go read more about it on their website, but you won't get the insight into what it took for 400 journalist to hunt through the leaked documents. https://news.vice.com/story/the