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Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Do you know where you're going to? Do you actually WANT to know? 15 hours, 9 minutes ago

Jason L Riley has written “Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell”. I have not read the book yet but have heard Jason Riley talking about it on a couple of interviews. Having heard those, I have no hesitation […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Counterfactual History. Not alternative facts but the Heart of Decision. 1 week, 3 days ago

I’ve been hearing historian Dr Niall Ferguson, who is the Millbank Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, amongst many other titles, use the term “counterfactual” more than a few times now, and always wondered […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Five Million. Let's make it Five-Oh. 3 weeks, 1 day ago

I attach the video link and also embed the video in this short post. It is a discussion between three eminent historians of today about the “Big Three” of the Second World War, namely Roosevelt, Churchill and […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Octopus. Octopers? 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Surveys, polls and the like are nice, quick and easy tools to use, especially when they can be crafted to elicit responses one is looking for. Companies, governments, research folk and the like, seem to love using […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, The god of war modelling studio 2 months ago

War games, business simulations, fantasy feeder games and the like are all models. Models are fantasies we create about people and places as we’d like them to be. Advertisements are models. Marketing is one big […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, The Tragic Trajectory 2 months, 1 week ago

I have just watched George Friedman on Mauldin Economics discussing, of course, the situation in Ukraine, what it means for the rest of the world, etc. The video can be found below, and I would encourage you to […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, The three leading causes of death in the world. And things like Gallipoli. 2 months, 1 week ago

At a talk some years ago, I heard the speaker, someone who moved in diplomatic circles, say that the three leading causes of death in the world were:

Actions by a foreign government.
Actions by your own […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Absence of Evidence. Absence of Malice? 2 months, 2 weeks ago

“Absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence”, or so we

have been told. Just because the water seems fresh and clear doesn’t mean the liver flukes aren’t there. We shouldn’t get paranoid over […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Tax, tax, tax. Thank you to my upline. 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Once again, I see arguments over more tax, how to tax, whom to tax, ad nauseum. By the way, it’s “whom” to tax, not which corporations to tax. You can’t tax companies, you can only tax people.
Once again, when […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Human Resources. Human Relations. Human Renaissance? 2 months, 3 weeks ago

I discovered that there was such a thing as “human resources”, especially a scourge called the “Human Resource Department” several years ago and came to loathe the phrase. Not long after that, I discovered the […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Apologize for tactical variations? Why? 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Over the last few days, I have seen at least two persons, one Matt Taibbi writing on Substack, and the other George Friedman of Geopolitical Futures, apologizing for being wrong about the assumption that Russia […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Lebensraum! How much is enough? Just a little bit more! 2 months, 3 weeks ago

The word “lebensraum” meaning “living space” has been on my mind again recently. That’s because we humans never seem to be satisfied no matter how much we have. Maybe that’s because we think “contentment” means […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Does the rising tide still lift all boats? 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Channel News Asia (CNA) sent an email titled “Making sense in a world of flux”. The phrase “redistribution of wealth” caught my eye.

I followed the link to this article titled “Greater social spending and […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, What does your Presence Promote? 2 months, 4 weeks ago

I’ve done four episodes of “Literature” with my friend Benjamin Thomas on YouTube, and I was introduced to the idea of poetry as “bending the rules of grammar to add layers of meaning”. Well, today I was musing […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Pain is a given. Suffering is optional. Really. 3 months ago

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, in “Letters and Papers from Prison”, wrote “We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.” While most of us would […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Seven more years of F1. Learn from nearly forty years of DHL-F1! 3 months, 1 week ago

This morning, Channel News Asia’s (CNA) “The Big Read: Singapore goes all in with F1 – will it pay off for a desperate tourism sector?” caught my eye. Risk assessments, boldness, and memories of the enjoyable […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, To clean a plastic broom 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Yes, “To kill a mockingbird” was dancing around inside my head. Let’s get that out of the way. I found myself sitting on the floor this morning picking hairs and sticky dust monsters out of a plastic broom we […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Powerful Passport. Is that good? 3 months, 3 weeks ago

I just read on LinkedIn that the two most powerful passports in the world are that of Japan and Singapore. Holding either of these passports grants you access to 192 nations without the need for visas beforehand. […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, If you resign, should you be worried about the "hole" you left behind? 4 months, 1 week ago

Edited transcript.
Well it’s the 14th of january 2022, Elijah’s Expressions.
Today the topic: If you resign should you fret about the “hole” you left behind?
This was sparked off because CNA sent me […]
Elijah Lim wrote a new post, Stage One Thinking. Go Beyond! 4 months, 1 week ago

Edited Transcript

It is 13 january 2022, Elijah’s Expressions.

Yesterday I was talking and referring to something called ANOVA single factor. I’m not going to go into detail about ANOVA […]
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