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Berry grower, mead maker, beer brewer, cheese eater, liberty lover, beach walker, book reader, climber of family trees, painter of light, master of puns and slayer of syllogisms, scruting the inscrutable and effing the ineffable, keeper of memories and guardian of the forgone conclusion.

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Rob Weir I try to always have a variety of tasks on my plate, researching, writing, editing, marketing, etc., so whatever my mood is at the moment there is alw…moreI try to always have a variety of tasks on my plate, researching, writing, editing, marketing, etc., so whatever my mood is at the moment there is always something I can do to advance a project. Success, as an author, is not dependent on being able to turn it on and off at will, like a water faucet. Of course, you cannot be blocked for long periods of time either...(less)

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Rob Weir I'm on work with the working title "Big Ideas for Libertarians." I'm aiming to present a set of around 30-50 key libertarian concepts which show how l…moreI'm on work with the working title "Big Ideas for Libertarians." I'm aiming to present a set of around 30-50 key libertarian concepts which show how libertarians reason about the world. Insights, frames of reference, heuristics, models, rules—these could go by many names—but think of things like: Self-Ownership, Negative Rights, Victimless Crimes, Regulatory Capture and Subsidiarity. These are concepts that we libertarians have readily at hand, the mental paths we tend to follow, part of our common intellectual heritage, as certainly as the Marxist instinctively sees the world in terms of Exploitation, Alienation and the Labor Theory of Value.

I'm 130 or so pages now, aiming for 180.(less)

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	Study Hall: College Football, Its Stats and Its Stories by Bill Connelly, Spencer Hall (Foreword), Jason Kirk (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.18 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Laconics of Liberty: Short Passages and Poems from the Writings of Early Libertarians by Charles T. Sprading (Compiler), Rob Weir (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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What is Libertarianism?

In laws and in morals, it is wrong for me to hit you, steal your stuff or enslave you. This is nearly a universal truth, held by almost all societies, at almost all periods in human history. Similarly, if I and a bunch of my friends decide to beat you up, steal your stuff or […]

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