The Financial Review’s Inaccurate Preference Analysis
The Financial Review’s Inaccurate Preference Analysis
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A quotation from Baltasar Gracián
As many tastes as heads, and as different.Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601-1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 101 (1647) [tr. Duff (1877)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…
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As many tastes as heads, and as different. [Tantos son los gustos como los rostros, y tan varios.] (Source (Spanish)). Alternate translations: There are as many Opinions as Faces, and as great difference amongst the one as the other. [Flesher ed. (1685)] So many men, so many tastes, all different.…
Settings, preferences and defaults
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/19/settings-preferences-and-defaults/
Control what gets written to the log
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/04/30/control-what-gets-written-to-the-log/
The pineapple pizza debate isn't about food—it's manufactured tribal warfare that lets you perform strong opinions about something completely meaningless while avoiding actual substance.
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https://riftlymedia.com/pineapple-pizza-tribal-identity-meaningless-conflict/
🥰 Ever the romantic, I look under the covers at the calculus of matchmaking.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/16/double-coincidence-of-wants/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
It should be no surprise to most that dating is not an economic endeavour (with some obvious exceptions). In this blog post and associated podcast, I articulate why.
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