Twitter at its worst I recently decided to take a vacation from Twitter. Alan Jacobs here pretty much captures why I got fed up with it and needed a break.

Seth’s Blog: The hard work of understanding

The Log: an epic software engineering article “I would suggest that Kreps’s system architecture can be further distilled, to this basic precept: * Focus on the data, not on the logic. The logic will emerge when you understand the data. That, in the end, is what 50 years of building database systems, version control systems, […]

Ticket Prices vs. Player Salaries Nate Silver: “Catering to higher-end customers in a period of rapid economic growth may be a Faustian bargain, as it increases near-term cash flows but erodes support among working class segments of the fan base who may be important to a team’s success in the longer term.”

5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History

I would make up little aphorisms that would summarize my insights. This one won’t sound important but it really is, and it’s, “Nothing gets done unless somebody does it.” Basically, that says ultimately, somebody’s got to take responsibility for moving something. It’s amazing how well-meaning organizations and units of organizations will say okay, now we’re […]

Toward a New Macroeconomics, Part One Arnold Kling’s 4 quadrants of creation/destruction: Corporatist Stagnation, Schumpeterian Boom, Minsky Recession, Rising Dynamism.