October 2009
41 posts
Predictably Irrational & Pricing Models
Fair warning this is a piece about “pricing models” so how exciting can it be? But maybe you should give it a chance.
As easily molded individuals we are susceptible to accepting most “prices” in the market as normal. But what is normal? Where did the guiding mechanism that we perceive to be normal originally come from and who set that price? A recent MIT study published...
WatchThe Brick Layer Cometh… to NY.
Precise & Beautiful
Lessons in Writing - Roald Dahl
“Then she really started yelling and the words which she used cannot be written down on paper, for they were terrible words. They poured out of her small fish mouth in one long unbroken high-pitched stream, and little bits of spit and saliva came out with them.”
An excerpt from Dahl’s short story “Madame Rosette” - I love how the terrible words are only magnified by...
“Relationships > Accomplishments”
Google Found Me
And they brought great news…
Buffalo Bills Fans: Make $87/Hr (Online)
Unemployed Fan Makes $8,643/Month Part-Time! Read this Special Report to See How.
Consumer-Weekly.com
Ryan Hall in NY
Just read a great Runners World article on Ryan Hall and his upcoming race in NY. A few excerpts below and I definitley recommend reading the quotes at the end…
We’ve waited nearly three decades for an American to not just run fast against the world’s best marathoners - but to beat them. It’s tempting to think Ryan Hall is the one. This November in New York, he’s...
Creative Destruction
In Joseph Schumpeter’s vision of capitalism, innovative entry by entrepreneurs was the force that sustained long-term economic growth, even as it destroyed the value of established companies that enjoyed some degree of monopoly power.
My senior economic thesis was on Joseph Schumpeter’s “creative destruction”. Couldn’t be more relevant to the work I’m...
“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they...”
– CS Lewis
Mentor/Big Brother
I signed up to be a mentor for a local High School program. I was excited to get involved but after reading these 1 line bios I’m PUMPED!
I like to eat Panda Express, I am very energetic
I’m a pretty chill kid, but if I feel disrespected I’ll be your worst nightmare
I am great on computers, I like giving people directions on public transportation
I like Politics & Law I...
Pride/Love of Home
With this love for the place there goes a love for the way of life; for beer and tea and open fires, trains with compartments in them and an unarmed police force and all the rest of it; for the local dialect and (a shade less) for our native language… The family offers us the first step beyond self-love, so this offers us the first step beyond family selfishness… Love never spoke...
“The existence of doubt as evidence of a place for faith”
“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
“Joy is the one emotion you can’t fake.”
Biking
Starting to wear my helmet again as of today. There are few reasons this is a good idea.
“I’m not larger than life. But I’m working on it.”
– Usain Bolt
Wrong Place Wrong Season
I ran To where the trees don’t change And I lied, I missed you Your apple picking, color flashing leaves A season without plaids Without pumpkin pie Without that brown sweater Where grey skies smile For they’re expected of less I ran To where the sun shined Where my zipups rusted But the mornings weren’t crisp I thought of this Where the ground solids Where the rake lay on the ground Buried in...
“What keeps many of us from growing is not sin but speed… We live life in the...”
– From City Church Bulletin - Mike Yaconelli
