Thanks to the miracle of aggregation and analytics we now have a lot more rankings and crap than we know how to use — so many handy ways to see who has the most authority, influence, power, popularity… Reminds me a little of Pandora’s Box — eh? One thing hasn’t quite made it out of [...]
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I’ve been meaning to do one of these Open Yale Courses online for a while. I’d love to watch Robert Shiller’s course in financial markets (I think Shiller is great but I’m undecided how much I can really tolerate hearing about financial markets…) You can also view Paul Bloom’s introduction to psychology. I haven’t looked at many [...]
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Can’t sleep. So I open up my computer and there’s a new post from Felix Salmon, “When Morgan Stanley almost died,” saying that even in this “orgy of one-year-later reminiscing,” decision-makers still need vivid reminders “just how close the entire financial world came to collapse.” No doubt. Canadians can’t forget it either — even though [...]
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