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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Ax Grinding Article of the Year [political personality test]
Interesting article on a tenured professor struggling financially. What’s interesting to me about it is just that I can see how this article would quicken the political pulse of just about everyone that reads it. There’s so much material! I’m … Continue reading
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To The Dedicated: Success
Jason Freedman: So, the 42Floors crew talked this over and we all agreed that we wanted to go to the mats. We’re moving out of our respective apartments. We’re all switching to a Maker’s Schedule. We rented a house in Redwood … Continue reading
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No Free Lunch [Or: The Stupid Germans Come Home To Roost]
I know that my friends and associates who work at at investment banks make piles of money. I know that they make this money mostly because the value of their skills is colossal. I know that the value of their … Continue reading
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How To Make Temporary Friendships (Sell Stuff)
From Barker: Overall, we find that retail employees use five broad categories of rapport-building behaviors in commercial contexts: uncommonly attentive behavior, common grounding behavior, courteous behavior, connecting behavior, and information sharing behavior. All the old sales gimmicks work. One thing … Continue reading
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Today In Things I Don’t Understand
Emacs, the development environment for gods. Here is xkcd: I find myself completed fascinated by computer programming. I admire people who are awesome at it. I follow the culture. I’m desperate to learn it. I code in just about every … Continue reading
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God I love python
Haven’t been using it for the last while and just came back. I just realized I could write this little operation to mash together items of a list in a super simple and clear manner. I’m still new at this, … Continue reading
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@#$@ing Monopolies
From my hometown: Those owners want to add 500 acres of space under glass, which would allow them to operate 24 hours a day, 12 months a year. That would translate into 2,300 short-term and 1,050 permanent jobs, not to … Continue reading
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Motivations And Scale
A paper on small businesses. [W]e show non pecuniary benefits (being one’s own boss, having flexibility of hours, etc.) play a first-order role in the business formation decision. We then discuss how our findings suggest that the importance of entrepreneurial … Continue reading
Occupy Wall St.
OWS represents four things to me: An expression of discontent protected by constitutional rights A convenient cover for run-of-the-mill hooligans, crackpots and anarcho-douchebags to abuse local business or yank the mic and step up on their soapbox as suits their … Continue reading
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