Septeto Nacional on the care of the self.
Septeto Nacional: “Sábado triste, domingo feliz, la vida es una semana. Hay que vivirla con ganas, hay que aprenderla a vivir.”
Category: people
An expert’s opinion on the Gulf of Mexico spill, reactions.
“shelburn, who is a retired manager for an offshore underwater service company” in The Oil Drum: For those who are appalled that BP had no contingen...
Something special in the air.
Two days ago, while waiting for a flight at LAX, I heard this p.a. announcement: “Atención, will passenger [redacted] please return to the security desk.&...
The homegrown anarchists of our time.
The dude who tried to fly his plane into an IRS building is from Texas. The dude who tried to blow up his van in Times Square is from Connecticut.
Conversations with my imaginary nemesis: marketing matters.
I have an ongoing conversation with an imaginary nemesis. We are both in the business of making people happy. Today my nemesis said to me: Don’t you know ...
The $1,800 drivers license.
I just read a note from an immigrant who reports he has been in this country for 16 years, having arrived at the age of 15 and immediately started working. He i...
Looking sharp on the field.
Summary of an awesome study on professional soccer players and how they make decisions. In short: they’re not just worried about scoring, they’re al...
Betting on the society of your dreams.
If it’s true that “the house always wins,” why do people keep playing? For sure, it’s a celebration of hope. It’s also an investme...
Six packs of beer, nachos, Weber.
Millions upon millions of people joyously devote their free time to the study of organizational behavior — lunch break after lunch break, weekend upon wee...
The iPad app buying process.
My parents have graciously agreed to test the iPad. So far, they’ve had a terrific time. But when buying apps they hit a bump: the messaging, written and ...
Published details of a legal bank heist.
How many people in finance are using the very detailed debacle of synthetic cdo’s and other derivatives as a primer on how to create new, even more comple...
Handy technology.
Necessity is the mother of invention. Iambic pentameter, the three second rule: constraints lead to improvisation. You need a wall to have a “breakthrough...
Absorbing energy transmitted by sound waves.
It had been two years since I last heard music so loud for so long as I did tonight. Before that, I’d done it very often, as frequently as several times a...
Get that glucose.
It’s not that people are inherently bad. It’s that ethical thinking is hard to do. We are simple to understand: we avoid unpleasant work and seek ou...
Albert Brooks’ Real Life; liking, favoriting, sharing, commenting.
Some online activities are already or could easily be made into formal games. Take, for example, the activity of using a news reader like Google Reader to ̶...
For it before he was against it, finance journalism edition.
Ouch. Matthew Yglesias points out that Michael Lewis, now making mint by ridiculing banksters, only recently ridiculed their critics.
YouTube as feedback.
There is not an original thought in what follows. I often joke that YouTube is the real Pirate Bay, that only its size and Google’s stature keep it open f...
Josh Marshall: “[T]he critics of racial progress, because they don’t comprehend it, resort to a parody of it.”
Josh Marshall nails the Republican party on Michael Steele.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
What if China’s main exports were sugar and doctors while Cuba’s main exports were Apple computers and cpg’s bound for Wal Mart?