This’ll be the last I write or say about this (… come to think of it, this is also the first I’m writing about this — but I’m already tired of it). So Barack Obama and Sarah Palin (and John McCain, and Joe Biden for that matter) don’t have much “executive experience.” Well it’s reassuring [...]
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The Olympics is more of a spectacle than a platform for articulating ideas, which is my directive here. So my only post is just going to link to some of the best photos of The Games. The Big Picture at boston.com… and more, and more. Photo Journal at wsj.com… and more, and more, and more. [...]
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“When you treat people like idiots, they’ll behave like idiots… Whengovernment takes over the responsibility from citizens, the citizens can’tdevelop their own values anymore. So when you want people to develop theirown values in how to cope with social interactions between people, you haveto give them freedom.” That’s traffic engineer Hans Monderman, as quoted in [...]
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Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch (also see this review) is a remarkable comparison to my own ideas. Crouch and I both believe that “after many thousands of years of accumulating human culture, the world which we must make something of—the environment in which we carry on the never-ending human cultural project—is [...]
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Last week I was scrolling through Dan Brown’s blog on the London Free Press website, pointing to a critique of London indie media outlets by local designer John Leschinski. One of those things I felt an urgent need to comment on. But in my typical fashion, one thought led to another and my comments about [...]
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Felix Salmon at Portfolio wonders why Apple is worth more than Google, raising some interesting questions and points about the future. Both have a major cultural presence beyond business and technology, and both may potentially become greater… Android will be pivotal for this comparison. I have my doubts about whether Google can pull it off, [...]
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At Overcoming Bias, economist Robin Hanson advises to “listen in on successful professional marketers, salesfolk, coaches, bosses, recruiters, etc. telling each other how to manipulate folks like you.” He goes further, pointing to The Rules for Women and Roissy’s 16 Commandments of Poon. Their purpose in this post seems to be to generate interest and [...]
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The Republican position on the Georgian situation indicates they’re either motivated by secretive strategies (i.e. from too much time spent looking at maps), or have an incredibly limited repertoire of responses for crises like this (the same template that has been used since WWII). I strongly suspect it’s a bit of both. According to Bush [...]
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In times like this I’m especially glad my sense of humour encompasses the darkly ironic. It’s funny in a way to see Russia using moves and poses from the NATO playbook: investigating Georgia for war crimes, Medvedev pulling the genocide card and Putin even quoting Reagan, making it difficult for the Americans to criticize Russia [...]
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Tending naturally to be a pessimist, having worried for years that 9/11 actually made folks artificially more positive about the economy (which should have stayed worse for longer — due to economic/business reasons unrelated to politics — but didn’t because everyone thought it was their patriotic duty to keep spending money they didn’t have, and [...]
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You won’t see or hear from me online for a week or so — that means no email or anything. I’m moving this weekend, and I should’ve remembered it takes 8 days for the cable company to dispatch a communications technician to my residence to perform a service installation. Anyway, it’s good to do a [...]
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