I’d recommend this article to just about anybody: “The No-Stats All-Star” from New York Times Magazine. [Update: I forgot to tip my hat to aldaily.com -- of all places -- where I found the link. Patrick Maloney at lfpress.com blogged it earlier too.] It’s by Michael Lewis, who walked away from Wall Street in the 1980′s and wrote [...]
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Concerning blogging, I was just thinking about the importance of establishing certain expectations and meeting them consistently… In the last day or two I’m having trouble getting up stamina for the big, synoptic, sustained posts I tend to write when I’m on a roll, and which I’m developing a kind of discipline for. I’m just going to jam a little and [...]
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(continued) … is absolutely essential if you have any intention of leading. This is one of the oldest ideas in philosophy, we keep coming back to it again and again and again, but people keep forgetting. David Frum discussed this a few days ago, in a post on “Presidential Knowledge“: Somebody who knew President Bush [...]
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