March 2008
14 posts
What Microloans Miss: Financial Page: The New... →
PowerPoint presentation about using principles of... →
On Professional Blogging
I dislike having a blog, particularly a professional one. It doesn’t seem a professionally wise move: you are bound to write something idiotic on them. However, while perhaps not wise, blogs are much too useful to ignore. So useful that I now consider it a professional responsibility to have one, and want everyone I work with to have one too. I find them to be the single most useful tool in...
(Notes from Legal Futures, Hal Varian)
The Kaplan program @ Santa Fe Institute. Everyone else wanted to prove their theory was correct, but he really needed the 10,000 prize. He let everyone else do the price discovery, then he snatched all the trades. An index fund — you’re letting markets decide on the price then you’re buying at the market. Soon, everyone else was doing...
Self and its corollary as currency. Rise of the printing press prioritized the vernacular. Photography and its effects on war and photography. Africa — phone minutes as currency. HP a net jewel (energy) expenditure. Our conception of ourselves, our time, and the amount we touch other people.
New kinds of groups to share rewards and risks. Opening bank accounts, getting insurance, having...
shbrown: At Legal Futures listening to Kramer talk... →
Eben Moglen asking Kevin Martin about whether the FCC is going to require disclosure requirement for network management practices? He says yes, that this is going to be critical for whether the FCC determines whether this is an effective management practice. He says the complaint process gives them the opportunity to address this, and agrees that it would be helpful in being able to fully...
“Make visible, simple unifying metrics visible to the entire company.”
“Beware multiple simultaneous essential innovations. BART made this mistake: cars...”
“The 20th century was about sorting out supply. The 21st is going to be about...”
– This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize
“[A]s I’ve emphasized in three other postings, if you choose a good...”
– fluidinfo
“Data Property Rights, Not Portability”
– from GigaOm
shbrown: On Virgin America, GNU/Linux is booting... →