Monday, September 07, 2026

Work Work

 


From "Taken": The Importance of Skills

 


The Case Against College Degrees



MoneyWise: Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs argues for the trades.

Unusual Jobs: Utah Fish and Game

 The Panhandle region placed 172 GPS radio-collars on 6-month old elk calves in the Coeur d’Alene and St. Joe River drainages since 2015.  A couple reasons we collared so many elk was to determine survival rates and for those elk that didn’t make it, find out why they died.

Check out their elk mortality study.

Labor Day

 


Have a great one!

Sunday, September 06, 2026

Saturday, September 05, 2026

Definitely!!!

 


Available on Amazon.

Yep

 


"What critics keep getting wrong about capitalism"

 Vincent Geloso goes after The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's "takedown" of capitalism.

Check it out.

Diversity of Dispositions

 A good diamond cutter has a different disposition than a good dog trainer. The one is careful, the other commanding. Different kinds of work attract different human types, and we are lucky if we find work that is fitting. There is much talk of "diversity" in education, but not much accommodation of the kind we have in mind when we speak about the quality of a man, or woman: the diversity of dispositions.

- Matthew B. Crawford in Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work