“The One is a cruel invention.” — Alain de Botton
“This happens a lot—people travel and hey find places they like so much, they think they’ve risen to their best selves just by being there.” — Joan Silber
Pandemic: Answering the Survivabilty Meme
A FaceBook friend (are we really friends?) recently posted this meme. He is a conservative, I’d dare even say he is a rabid Trump supporter. That is a claim he would deny (I do not see any evidence of that…
“Reading is an infection, a burrowing into the brain: books contaminate, metaphorically, and even microbiologically.” — Jill Lepore
Defending the Shutdown
Someone on Facebook just made this argument: My response was truncated because who wants to read a lengthy political discussion, especially on Facebook? Here is the non-truncated version of my response to the post: 1. Why not? Why aren’t lives…
“In the case of an exponential creep-up, like Moore’s Law, the bend in the curve could look like a jump if you took your eye off the ball at the wrong time.” — Neal Stephenson
Polysllabic Spree: Stubborn Attachments
Cowen, Tyler. (2018). Stubborn Attachments. I read Cowen’s blog, Marginal Revolution, regularly. Although read is a misnomer. He is too busy writing and publishing for his academic career so most of his entries are curation of economics related stories: other…