March 2012
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August 2011
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Tea with the Economist: Nouriel Roubini on... →
Some very insightful stuff here. You can already see deflation at work in the drop offs in commodity futures like oil and crops - where big harvests have combined with dropping consumer spending.
This seems to point towards another QE - to ramp out of this stall and to shrink the deficit through a fiscal response. But the fact that the banks are sitting $1 T USD seems to point against...
Matt Damon explains non-market motivations to a... →
You know, I’m sympathetic to a great deal of Libertarian sentiment, but there is a point at which the real life complexities of human motivations and actions bump up against the reductionist thinking of classical economics. There are a lot of reasons people do things, not just money. Captial is not, in fact, a universal fungible marker of value. There are other economies at work in the...
June 2011
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May 2011
5 posts
April 2011
3 posts
“If research doesn’t make you feel like a different person, you’re doing it wrong”
– Innovation Always Starts With Empathy; Look at Zipcar and Even Apple | Co.Design (via Instapaper)
March 2011
6 posts
You are listening to Los Angeles →
ambient music + LAPD police scanner feed
strangely relaxing to work to …
February 2011
4 posts
January 2011
4 posts
2010 Final YTD Figures →
Fascinating. The stuff here that fuels modernization is exploding- construction, raw materials for electronics, short cycle fashion (cotton), urban life (coffee), western lifestyle (beef), and then insane speculative bubbles driven by globalized social media hysteria (gold).
Economics is the study of human behavior as *behavior*, as opposed to a meaning making exercise. What does this say about...
December 2010
11 posts
Economic Optimism? Yes, I’ll Take That Bet -... →
As I’ve been saying for about 15 years now - the problem is not that we are going to run out of oil. The problem is that we are never going to run out of oil.
The deposits of burnable fossil hydrocarbon fuel are huge, geological-time huge. Nuclear and renewable sources of power need to be developed to state where they are cheaper, more convenient, and more strategically sound than...
Purity
IDEO Labs » Bluetooth Classic →
I’ve been collecting old Western Electric 500 phones for a few years now. Usually all I’ve had to do to get them working is build a small project box that takes the crescent lugs and patches them into an RJ-45 jack. this even worked in the UK - apparently BT runs on the old Bell Labs standard - even though they have a separate hot leg for the bell.
When people use these old phones,...
Watchnickelcobalt:
deuscustoms:
An the winner for best use of a 69 BSA Goldstar in a movie is, If…
This film got an X certificate in England when it was released…and that was with all the sodomy scenes cut out (it was set in a public school)…so it must have been the incendiary image of that nasty Mr Malcom McDowell stealing a brand new Beezah from Mr Well Hairwaxed bikesalesman.
If… was portrait...
Real-time, disappointment, feedback & discourse →
I first saw this happen at the Twitter debut at SXSWi in 2006 … a panel of industry flacks gave a singularly boring panel. A twitterstorm broke out, and seemingly as one the room rose and left, after several asymmetric waves of laughter at the expense of the panel.
But this seems different. I mean, its a discussion about art, advertised as such, between a guy who just wrote a book about...
The Financial Brand: Marketing Insights for Banks... →
a heavy focus on retail banking (as that’s where a lot of branding dollars go) but an easy way to survey the category comms
November 2010
9 posts
Twelve leverage points - Wikipedia, the free... →
if you are writing a book about systems based decision making… knowing this list might be a good idea
The Decline of Creativity in the United States: 5... →
keyphrase: lack of whitespace.
not enough time in the woods pretending a stick is a wizards staff.
Did somebody just try to buy the British... →
Five billion pounds in gold.
Foundation X.
Are we dealing with a time-loop? Illuminati? Fabian society?
Air Force Wants Neuroweapons to Overwhelm Enemy... →
The neuro-behavioral-ethnography industrial complex grows yet again:
“711th’s call to develo[p] technologies to anticipate, find, fix, track, identify, characterize human intent and physiological status anywhere and at anytime.” Sounds like planning… or web analytics… or engagment mapping …
Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own... →
October 2010
7 posts
Susan Sontag — Paul Goodman Changed My Life →
I’m not sure I want to see this film, but I was (re)researching Goodman’s idea of “Good Work” and came across this essay by Sontag. Good stuff and good work.
