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How Colleges Exploited Student Loans to Kill the Liberal Arts

In 1828, a Yale report on academic instruction declared: "Our object is not to teach knowledge peculiar to any one of the professions; but to lay the foundation common to them all." This noble promise established the liberal arts as a dedicated space for personal exploration, intellectual breadth, and the pursuit of a "North Star." By definition, the liberal arts exist to facilitate this exploration. They provide the map and compass for a student to discover an intellectual i

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A Century of Economic Engineering and its Discontents

- What Paul Samuelson got right, what he got wrong, and how he motivated a century of economic thinkers to get it right. Paul Samuelson transformed economics from a collection of literary observations into a formal, deductive science. In his seminal 1947 work, Foundations of Economic Analysis, he established a universal mathematical framework based on the principle of constrained optimization. By applying the calculus of thermodynamics to human decision-making, he provided a

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How Sick Care Drains Your Health and What To Do About It

Almost everyone agrees the American medical system is broken. The examples are endless: staggering costs, mind-numbing bureaucracy, and poor outcomes. Yet, few agree on how to fix it. All participants, including the government, remain frozen by conflicting internal incentives and constraints preventing meaningful reform. This article takes a different approach called 'Radical Acceptance.' This is not the acceptance of futility, but the clarity of seeing the system for what it

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Redefining Rationality: The Act of Calibrating Internal Maps to the Evolving World

Many people view rationality as a cold, rigid set of rules. This narrow definition often creates resistance because it suggests a singular, correct way to live. However, this article introduces and defines Diverse Rationality to better align with how people actually experience decision-making. We move rationality from a static destination to an active process of internal calibration—one that is sensitive not only to the world but to the shifting state of the decision-maker th

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The Stability Premium: Navigating the Four Nevers of Banking Data

Banks and consumer platforms like Amazon share one significant asset: they both sit atop vast reservoirs of consumer data. However, this is where the comparison ends. The differences lie in the geometry of time, the weight of impact, and the persistence of uncertainty. Amazon’s feedback loop is near-instant; a "full cycle" from purchase to delivery is measured in days. In contrast, banking lives in the long-view. It may take years for credit card behavior to reveal its risk p

Loan and Risk

Jeff Hulett

Dec 30, 202513 min read

The Mechanics of Emergence: Signal Integration in Neurons

What does Neuroscience have to do with Personal Finance? Everything! My journey into personal finance has led me to a crucial realization: the vast majority of our challenge to achieve long-term wealth begins not in spreadsheets or investment accounts, but within our own minds. The reasons we are either successful or fail are often rooted in the deep mechanics of how our brain operates and how that operation ultimately presents in our personal finance decision-making. This a

Personal Finance Journey

Jeff Hulett

Dec 15, 20257 min read

How Not to Be Fooled by Statistics

Modern life is surrounded by data and statistics, from scientific breakthroughs and medical diagnoses to policy decisions and everyday purchases on consumer marketplace platforms. Statistical inference, at its core, is a future-focused process, designed to help us navigate uncertainty and make prospective choices. Yet, for all their power, statistics prove profoundly misleading if one does not understand the fundamental assumptions which underpin them. To truly navigate this

Thoughts & Inspirations

Jeff Hulett

Nov 3, 20259 min read

Designing Humanity: What the Eugenics Era Warns Us About Building the GenAI Future

The Peril of “Scientism” — When Science Pretends to Know What It Cannot Friedrich A. Hayek once warned us: “the curious task of economics...

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Jeff Hulett

Oct 7, 20255 min read

The Replication Crisis in Academia: A Premise Problem, Not a Research Problem

The Crisis Behind the Crisis The replication crisis exposes a fundamental flaw: researchers treat studies as static, retrospective events rather than dynamic, forward-looking updates to knowledge. Over recent history, this challenge has reshaped academia. A large-scale reproducibility project in psychology attempted to replicate 100 studies; only 36% produced statistically significant results. Medicine faces similar hurdles. In preclinical cancer research, investigators repro

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Jeff Hulett

Sep 25, 202520 min read