Ken Baumann

  • My Days of Bibliomancy with Virgil's 'Aeneid'

    I first read about sortes virgilianae in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book, 'Antifragile.' He described the heuristic technique and said it was a little trick he used when faced with a big business decision. The gist of it is this: Open Virgil's 'Aeneid...

  • Jonathan Gold Gave Me Crohn's Disease

    And I sat in the hospital for 14 days vomiting through my nose while a team of doctors did unholy things to my body.