December 2009
73 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-29) →
The xx (13)
Dirty Projectors (12)
Billie Holiday (7)
Washed out (4)
Lykke Li (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
November 2009
77 posts
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be...”
– Albert Einstein
“When the Fed buys assets it creates deposits, which, in turn, helps offset the...”
– Fair Game - Get Ready for Half a Recovery
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
Neko Case (13)
Grizzly Bear (12)
Sébastien Tellier (9)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy (6)
Andrew Bird (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“The beauty of holding sales on “Black Friday” is that stores know...”
– Arnold Kling
“The bottom line is that we face a brutal choice.”
– David Brooks
Are we willing to make these choices?
This is tUnE-yArDs singing “Sunlight”....
The True Meaning of MSFT-NEWS (Cont'd)
Really important thinking around challenging the status quo on the web. continuations:
Yesterday I wrote that a potential MSFT-NEWS deal is all about GOOG’s splitting of the profit pie (sorry - no links - writing on BB). As I have been thinking more about this, the most striking thing to me is how many people seem to dismiss any claim to a payment by content owners out of hand with statements...
Great track from Beach House.
tuneage:
Beach...
“In Manhattan, they have vacancy rates of 10-15 per cent and they feel like the...”
– Big property bubble forming in China, warns leading developer
“We know that the banks make huge spreads in trading OTC products and we were...”
– Liquidity, OTC Market and TBTF Banks « Rortybomb
“For me, blogging is about momentum and ‘more considered’ makes...”
– Russell Davies
I like this quite a bit. It’s why I’ve embraced Tumblr over all previous blogging attempts. However, I think it’s important to make a habit of writing longer pieces as they force you to explore your logic.
Why not?
ohryankelley:
Solange Knowles -...
“As City Hall struggles to pay for basic services, a stealth budget account worth...”
– Chicago Tribune
WatchIf you’re into Kings of Convenience then you’re going to freak out when you see the format for this show. 25 peeps in Paris grooving on these dudes. It is epic. Thanks to my brother for finding this.
“This moral materialism fomented a certain sort of manic energy. Americans became...”
– David Brooks
Love “moral materialism”
“Most of his predecessors failed because they were too intimidated to interrupt...”
– Dealbreaker
This dude’s nickname is “Juggernaut”. He sounds like a real badass, nothing like standing for 2 hours waiting for someone to give you something; productive and hard core. Look out Citadel folks, this guy crushes.
Watch$750 for a 3D printer seems kind of awesome. I’m finishing up Doctorow’s The Makers a book where 3D printing is a star of the show. Fascinating stuff, though I think I need to get the iMac first.
What are your thoughts on 3D printing?
Wild Beasts “We Still Got The Taste Dancin’ On Our... →
This is a must click through. This band rules.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
The xx (28)
Neko Case (13)
Washed out (11)
Grizzly Bear (8)
James Blackshaw (5)
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“It may be coincidence that the structure of the hedge fund sector emerged in the...”
– Piergiorgio Alessandri & Andrew G Haldane
World Elephant Polo Championships
The WEPA championships are upon us. From 11/29-12/5 elite teams of Athletes and Elephants will compete for the title of World Elephant Polo Champion in the tourney to be held in Nepal.
You, Me and My API has a keen interest in supporting this emerging sport. Therefore I will (hopefully) be providing on the ground updates on the successes of the New York Blues, our hometown team and last years...
“…banks sent out 2.1 billion direct-mail credit card solicitations in the...”
– John Carney
Achieving Excess Returns
I loved this and also gets to a fact of our modern economy. A network economy concentrates value in the supernodes. USV appears to be a supernode of the next wave of startups and they’re doing it with a lot less resources than Sequoia did.
The capacity to extract signal from noise is the ultimate value, but getting up the learning curve to make those decisions correctly on a regular basis...
“Twitter is just about the best discovery engine (as opposed to search engine)...”
– Noah Brier
This is an incredibly important point and one that may not resonate with CS optimizers. The greatest thing the Internet has done is create opportunities for serendipity. For instance, I’m not sure that were it not for a serendipitous and random link to the street art movement, I...
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This is Elliott Brood singing “Write It All...
“If Wall Street cut bonuses, the banks would be more profitable and pay more...”
– Dennis Berman
I'm doing 'God's work'. Meet Mr Goldman Sachs →
Can someone please explain to me what $GS thought they were doing in this article? Did they think this was clever PR? I mean it’s a disaster and if this continues to circulate and get’s into the mainstream of American consciousness people are going to lose it. Let’s be clear, $GS are good traders and in volatile markets good traders make a lot of money. When good traders have the...
“It denied, before the evidence was in, the possibility of evil. It sought to...”
– David Brooks
This is an important point. However, I just can’t get my head around how to utilize it in our world. Is there a historical precedent for a nation exercising moral and political seriousness at massive scale. Even if this were the case in this age of the massively scalable...