notes & quotes
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On government: "People on the political left and people on the political right have issues, though not always with the same parts of government or for the same reasons, and people in the broad expanse between philosophies just feel disconnected." - Jerry Large column
"So why exactly do we sleep? We don't know. We just know we have to." - Article on sleep
"It is an axiom of economics that the more options you have, the better off you will be. But psychology argues otherwise (as does common sense)." - NYT article
Notes on an around-the-world-trip.
A beach resort designed to for large folk to have fun, not get thin.
Ballmer is 45th on a list of CEO pay. Not a world list or a national list - a northwest list. Okay, I'm surprised....
"For a lot of Americans, the president's tax cut won't end up being a tax cut at all; it's really just a tax shift." - NYT article.
"[F]or the past 20 years, individual companies have prospered or failed, entire industries have grown up while others have vanished and, when all that frantic sinking and swimming in the economic waters is plotted as a graph of overall output, it looks like a gently rising curve." - Article on ''idiosyncratic volatility''
On government: "People on the political left and people on the political right have issues, though not always with the same parts of government or for the same reasons, and people in the broad expanse between philosophies just feel disconnected." - Jerry Large column
"So why exactly do we sleep? We don't know. We just know we have to." - Article on sleep
"It is an axiom of economics that the more options you have, the better off you will be. But psychology argues otherwise (as does common sense)." - NYT article
Notes on an around-the-world-trip.
A beach resort designed to for large folk to have fun, not get thin.
Ballmer is 45th on a list of CEO pay. Not a world list or a national list - a northwest list. Okay, I'm surprised....
"For a lot of Americans, the president's tax cut won't end up being a tax cut at all; it's really just a tax shift." - NYT article.
"[F]or the past 20 years, individual companies have prospered or failed, entire industries have grown up while others have vanished and, when all that frantic sinking and swimming in the economic waters is plotted as a graph of overall output, it looks like a gently rising curve." - Article on ''idiosyncratic volatility''
