The wisdom of Wal-Mart
Meeting social and environmental standards is not optional. I firmly believe that a company that cheats on overtime and on the age of its labor, that dumps its scraps and its chemicals in our rivers,...
View ArticleTyler Cowen on poor explanations
Tyler Cowen, in a post on why politicians aren’t more aggressively trying to stimulate aggregate demand, writes: In general you should be suspicious of explanations which take the form of “if only the...
View ArticleRichard Feynman’s advice to Stephen Wolfram
Richard Feynman gave Stephen Wolfram the following advice when Wolfram asked about starting his own research center: Find a way to do your research with as little contact with non-technical people as...
View ArticleThe hidden costs of Apple’s app store
Derek Powazek talks about the burden that the app store approval process puts on iOS developers: Apple’s App Store was a constant source of stress in the development process. Every time another story...
View ArticleGrasping for solutions
Andrew Brown, in writing about the practice of medicine during the Enlightenment, happens upon a universal truth: The prestige of a project can survive any amount of failure so long as no alternatives...
View ArticleQuotable: Salvatore Giunta
This respect that people are giving to me? This was one moment. In my battalion, I am mediocre at best. This shows how great the rest of them are. Medal of Honor winner US Army Staff Sergeant...
View ArticleDave Winer on angel investing
I loved Dave Winer’s take on angel investors: A bunch of guys (they’re almost all men) play at entrepreneurship the way other men play ponies. They’re not going to live the life of the 20-something....
View ArticleThe purpose of education
Roger Ebert, on education: Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained.
View ArticleThe currency of the Internet
The basic currency of the Internet is human ignorance, and, frankly, our database holds a strong cash position! Christian Rudder describes the OkCupid user base at OkTrends.
View ArticleBill James on the human capacity for evil
In an interview with Chuck Klosterman on the subject of crime, baseball analyst Bill James talks about how a person becomes a murderer: It is not as if we walk through one doorway and decide that...
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