As I’ve already done with economics, I’m adding a design feedroll. I’m not exactly a designer — at least not a visual or conventional one — but I love thinking like a designer and knowing what’s going on in the industry.
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Of course a lot of people have already seen this [added here Oct 11]: But fewer people saw him on the Charlie Rose show Friday night. Chris Rock is one of those people who makes me want to do what he does. I think I enjoy hearing Chris Rock talk about comedy as much as I [...]
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People are ridiculous. Folks are panicking because they suddenly realize they didn’t consider the obvious facts about the serious, deep, underlying problems in the U.S. financial industry.
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Now I don’t really know what to think. From what I saw (the first 45 minutes of Canadian leaders’ debate and about 15 or 20 minutes of American veeps’ debate), I feel like I’m far less able to predict the outcomes than I was a few hours ago.
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I hesitate to predict anything about these debates tonight. If anything, tonight might be one of those occasions that reminds us that predicting the future is really a fraudulent vocation. First, I’ve decided to watch the Canadian debate — or at least I’ll see how it goes. I haven’t been an enthusiastic spectator of Canadian [...]
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With this article in Sunday’s Washington Post, economist Robert Shiller becomes a probationary member in my growing pantheon of intellectual gods heroes.
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From Seth Godin on ”thinking bigger“: “How do you like the draft of the new brochure?” asks the boss. There are several responses available to you, in order of wonderfulness: It’s great. There’s a typo here on page 2. What if we changed the size of the headline? Are you open to considering different typefaces and [...]
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Check out the David Letterman interview in the current “Golden Age of Comedy” issue of Rolling Stone, which looks interesting enough I almost bought the magazine for the first time in years. Here’s some of what Dave had to say: On The Hills – “When we were going to have them, I started watching the [...]
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“My general rule is that we’re inclined towards optimal opportunities to experience our personal affect in the world. We continue exploring widely as long as no specific topic quite matches our existing knowledge, circumstances, and cognitive disposition. “When we find knowledge that helps us interpret our circumstances in a way that we can personally identify [...]
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Some of the most creative thinkers allow themselves moments of disorderly discovery, allowing new influences and sources to, in a sense, ‘find them.’ That’s from my early post about “disorderly discovery” (a poor attempt to invent a catchy term), or the importance of randomness in the creative process. It might be one of the most [...]
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I wanted to wait until after McCain’s speech tomorrow to write on this but now I’m not even sure if I’ll bother tuning in. I feel like all he’s doing is walking Sarah Palin up the aisle to be the next Republican president. This positive assessment of Palin’s political future doesn’t contradict my criticism of [...]
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