December 2008
11 posts
Rick Warren & Me
I guess I’m on the fence about what to think of the symbolic role Obama has given “Pastor Rick” in his inauguration ceremony. Rick Warren doesn’t differentiate between gay marriage, polygamy, incest and pedophilia when it comes to marriage. But he’s vaguely amenable to equal rights for everyone, presumably as long as we use different language. From a recent...
Pushing Past Performance for Retail Investors
A growing number of personal investment startups threaten to cost people real money. This is despite what I assume are the good intentions of the founders, who are trying to take on the massive and opaque mutual fund industry. Covestor, Cake Financial, and most recently kaChing offer many features, chief among them a ranking of their members’ investments, calculated one way or another from...
Me: How was LA?
Owen: It was fun. We saw Shamu. Now we're back.
“Going Postal. Stories of people who lost...
"GTD"
When I returned from San Francisco in September to focus on Jelly Desk, I was amazed at how tiny changes in my habits resulted in hours more productivity each day. An article in the WSJ this morning writes it up too:
Mr. Mann has moved away from being a purveyor of tips, and has become an advocate for a more comprehensive approach to productivity. He argues that inefficiencies are the result of...
Nick Paumgarten is Awesome!
I am searching for a way to express my fanboy-ness for New Yorker writer Nick Paumgarten. From The Pits, discussing NY’s building boom:
Keep an eye on the construction pits that developers dug to make way for the foundations of new buildings. The town is pocked with them.
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What will become of the pits? Can we turn them into half-wild swimming holes, like the granite quarries of...
“It would be nice if we could line up all the people who made the mistakes and...”
– Barney Frank during today’s “Big Three” bailout hearings.
Bailout Fuzzyness
I was sure Mark Zandi was the most honest one in today’s “Big Three” bailout hearings, until I come across this little tidbit from his written testimony via Paul Kedrosky. Every assembly line job lost means almost another one lost in auto repair? Don’t people still have to drive their existing cars, especially if we’re not buying new ones? And the biggest...
WatchOh, Andy Rooney, how did you become so hilariously crotchety? (via Andrew Wilkinson)