… for the new year. I don’t know if I’ll post again between now and then. I hope I will but in case I don’t I want to cross the threshold with a better lead post than one titled “Shameless Self-Friggin-Promotion.” Hey I’ve got different sides — as many as anyone. I don’t usually like [...]
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Did anyone see the ads for Bromance? To me it looks like the end of TV — but I’ve seen what I thought was the end of TV too many times to believe it anymore. Anyways, it reminded me of something Dave Letterman said in a Rolling Stone interview about that celebrity-offspring-doing-reality-TV crowd. This was about the [...]
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I could try to call this ”philosophy” but I avoid using the word whenever possible. There are too many meanings I don’t want to associate with.
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Continuing the discussion of moral codes… It’s difficult to encapsulate this creative attitude into a tidy formula, but I think this conveys my theory of the “practice of theory” as well as anything: There are exceptions to every rule, and rules for every exception. We need rules to live effectively (not just rules to live [...]
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I didn’t start out thinking this intellectual stuff is necessary, it just feels necessary. It’s just the way I am. Classifying and defining is just something I automatically do — always. It isn’t a basic need on the same level as food, sex & shelter. It’s even more basic – on the level of breathing, or maybe sleep is [...]
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Hey I finally caught up with the new millennium and got a digital camera, courtesy of my parents, for Christmas. I’ve been sort of an anti-picture person for the past few years, for no apparent reason, but blogging has made me want to add that visual element to my creative portfolio — though “portfolio” is maybe too [...]
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I love this “essay on idling,” by Mark Kingwell, in this weekend’s Globe and Mail. For those who don’t know, Kingwell is Canada’s cool philosophy professor: media darling, sometime columnist (including a stint as the token progressive for the National Post), he writes for a popular audience on wide-ranging subjects (politics, happiness, architecture, booze), and is still [...]
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[Intro deleted] In economics and contract theory, information asymmetry deals with the study of decisions in transactions where one party has more or better information than the other. This creates an imbalance of power in transactions which can sometimes cause the transactions to go awry. Examples of this problem are adverse selection and moral hazard. [...]
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… from here. To support my last argument, a few indications towards the massive changes we’ll experience in 2009. 1 - Retail: No doubt we’ll hear a lot more about this on Monday and throughout January as the Christmas numbers come in. Nobody expects it to be pretty. Felix Salmon points to this unencouraging WSJ graphic:
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