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Jeffrey Alexander Martin: The Tortoise and the Hare V1 jeffreyalexandermartin.com/2025/03/the-to…

The Tortoise and the Hare V1 The Tortoise and the Hare is one of those rare stories that almost everyone knows and can tell. It's very old, back to the ancient Greek Aesop about 2,600 years ago. It has been translated, rewritten, and adapted many times over the millennia. I

Jeffrey Alexander Martin: The Tortoise and the Hare V2 jeffreyalexandermartin.com/2025/03/the-to…

The Tortoise and the Hare V2 "Tell me again dad," said young Teddy the tortoise, "of the time that you beat the hare in the race." "Lay your head down, and I will tell you." "When I was a young boy, just like you, I was walking down to the lake one day. I passed a hare and a

Jeffrey Alexander Martin: We learn from history... jeffreyalexandermartin.com/2025/03/we-lea…

We learn from history... I was reviewing the great book 'Why Don't We Learn from History' by B. H. Liddell Hart for a college course I'm designing, and I noticed that he uses the phrase "We learn from history..." a few times. Like everything else in the book, they are excellent

Jeffrey Alexander Martin: The Tortoise and the Hare V3 jeffreyalexandermartin.com/2025/03/the-to…

The Tortoise and the Hare V3 Once upon a time, in a land long ago, there lived a hare and a fox who were friends. They watched as a slow tortoise walked by. They laughed and jeered. Hare challenged the tortoise to a race. The tortoise accepted the challenge. The fox was the

Jeffrey Alexander Martin: Notes on the Rise of China and the Fall of America jeffreyalexandermartin.com/2025/03/notes-…

Notes on the Rise of China and the Fall of America This century began with a single major world power, the USA, but it will not end that way. The power and prominence of China has risen and fallen multiple times over the last few thousand years, and it is on the rise again. Last

Jeffrey Alexander Martin: Notes on the Paradox of Tolerance jeffreyalexandermartin.com/2025/04/notes-…

Notes on the Paradox of Tolerance Part of the continual churn of death and destruction in human history is from the paradox of tolerance, which too few people are aware of. Frank Herbert has an excellent statement of it in his 1976 novel 'Children of Dune': "When I am weaker

Jeffrey Alexander Martin: A Little Writing Exercise - Part 1 jeffreyalexandermartin.com/2025/04/a-litt…

A Little Writing Exercise - Part 1 I feel like I need some fictional writing exercise to upskill and get the juices flowing, so I've decided to play with the opening of 'Replay' by Ken Grimwood, because I think it's a beautiful opening to a book. Maybe the best I've ever read.

Jeffrey Alexander Martin: The Tortoise and the Hare V4 jeffreyalexandermartin.com/2025/05/the-to…

The Tortoise and the Hare V4 I listened to an audiobook recently that was written mostly in the second-person point of view, in future tense. That's unique. It was surprisingly good. I'm going to play with that idea here. I read the Oxford World's Classics version of the

Jeffrey Alexander Martin: Adam Smith on the Rise and Fall of Wealthy Societies jeffreyalexandermartin.com/2025/06/adam-s…

Adam Smith on the Rise and Fall of Wealthy Societies There were two great works published in the year 1776, 'The American Declaration of Independence' by Thomas Jefferson, and 'The Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith. Humans are naturally poor. Think about the most natural state of

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Fables contain a type of narrative wisdom that connects with humanity in a more truly human way than boring knowledge divorced from story. Not that humans ever really learn the lessons anyway, but there's a reason that stories persist. Wolves and sheep are a classic subject of