Welcome

I guess it serves well to start this off with a welcome post. I have broken down and joined the legion of bloggers, probably at the point when blogging is quickly fading from fashion. That being the case, I feel as though I should defend my new interest by giving the purpose of this blog.

Recently, I find myself sending lots of emails about random things I find interesting to you, my friends and family. Most likely, the net effect has been you are reading fewer and fewer of these emails. So I decided to start this blog, which will mostly be a collection of things I find interesting on the web. There will of course be the occasional normative commentary, but as the title suggests, I'm not trying to change anyone's minds here.

Which brings me to the title. J.M. Clark once said he had "an irrational passion for dispassionate rationality". This quote was of course in reference to the study of economics. Similarly, I tend to view the world with a removed curiosity for the things occurring around me. Fundamentally I see that world driven by the interconnected rationality of people: hence the title of this blog.

I hope that you find the things here as interesting as I do, and I encourage you to post responses or email me if you find something you enjoy.

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