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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Book Quote of the Day
It is no tragedy to think of the most successful people in any field as superheroes. But it is a tragedy when a belief in the judgment of experts or the marketplace rather than a belief in ourselves causes us to give up, as John Kennedy Toole did when he committed suicide after publishers repeatedly rejected his manuscript for the posthumously best-selling Confederacy of Dunces...
What I’ve learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized. For even a coin weighted toward failure will sometimes land on success. Or as the IBM pioneer Thomas Watson said, “If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.”
Pg. 99: David Kinley's "The Liberty Paradox"
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Featured at the Page 99 Test: The Liberty Paradox: Living with the
Responsibilities of Freedom by David Kinley. About the book, from the
publisher: How do ...
What Does DS Mean in A Car?
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Drive sport mode in short DS is one of the most common symbols in sports
cars. Car owners need to understand the unique meaning of various symbols
that com...
Links
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LLM approach expert levels in ophthalmology. Price controls in health care
(Argentina) Will bird flu (H5N1) animal pandemic spread to humans? Lex
Fridman i...
Wenar on why you shouldn’t try to help poor people
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In all the discussion of Leif Wenar’s critique of Effective Altruism , I
haven’t seen much mention of the central premise: that development aid is
generall...
Wenar on why you shouldn’t try to help poor people
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In all the discussion of Leif Wenar’s critique of Effective Altruism , I
haven’t seen much mention of the central premise: that development aid is
generall...
Young Worker Exodus from Low Pay Japan
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Outbound 'r' Us.
China is famously in dire economic straits, but how's Japan *really* doing
to solve its longstanding problems like a dearth of working-a...
How to run a successful remote workshop
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In-person workshops are a great way to brainstorm, plan, and share new
ideas with colleagues. But as remote work becomes the norm for many
companies, rem...
The two notions of amenities in spatial economics
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Spatial economists use the word “amenity” in two imperfectly aligned ways.
The first refers to place-specific services that are not explicitly
transacted a...
Thatcherism is dead: Thatcherism lives
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Thatcherism is dead. It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone to meet
its maker. It has kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil and
joined the...
Some Links
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(Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist
Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the
truth abou...
Chromostereopsis
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The effect varies for different people. Take a moment and look at this.
Some people don’t see anything special: just a blue iris in a red eye. For
me thoug...
Do Higher Wages Mean Higher Standards of Living?
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Editor's note: We have updated macroblog's location on our website,
although archival posts will remain at their original location. Readers who
use RSS sho...
A new shop for parents who've done better
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It has been a while. Actually, I am not sure anyone reads this blog anymore
and even if they did how they might find out about a new post.
Anyhow, your eco...
The WSJ Law Blog: 2006-2017
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More than a decade ago, The Wall Street Journal launched Law Blog. It had a
simple name but a novel approach to legal coverage in the pre-Twitter era.
The ...
herbal untuk jantung dan darah tinggi yang ampuh
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Apakah Anda tahu bahwa madu mampu memberikan M segala macam manfaat bagi kesehatan
manusia? Madu diakui mengingat bahwa zaman kuno sebagai obat, dan penggun...
Why model?
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The first question that arises frequently--sometimes innocently and
sometimes not--is simply, "Why model?" Imagining a rhetorical
(non-innocent) inquisi...
Good Text Book on Public Policy
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Section I: What Is Public Policy? Chapter 1: Public Decision Making
Chapter 2: Why Is It So Hard to Make the World a Better Place?
Section ...
The end …
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This is the end of our broadcast day here at Murketing.com. Thanks for
having tuned in! Please head over to RobWalker.net for more on whatever I’m
up to no...
this site is moving
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After more than eight years at this address and more than more than seven
years blogging with the same old version of MovableType software, I am
shifting o...
An Announcement
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Michael Blowhard writes: Dear Friends -- You imagine it can't happen to
you, and then it does. Here's why 2Blowhards disappeared: Our webhost,
who'd given ...
Armenian genetics
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Armenian genes: Scientist in Yerevan launches a project to reveal genetic
history of the nation. The description of the science in the piece is *very*
garb...
New site
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I have a new site at *WordPress*:
http://www.harryrclarke.com/
*Readers please adjust your browser settings. *
It is goodbye *Blogger* for at least a whil...
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