Understanding marginal cost “Industries with zero marginal-cost products and services are inherently unstable until someone figures out how to become the king of the hill”

How To Be Creative | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios PBSoffbook

The shutdown is the Constitution’s fault “The parties are polarized, and they’re only getting more so. American politics is beginning to exhibit the exact symptoms scholars have seen in other presidential systems: highly disciplined, highly unified parties that both believe they truly represent the people and that both control crucial levers of power at the […]

8 Common Thinking Mistakes Our Brains Make Every Day and How to Prevent Them Pretty good summary of the most common biases and fallacies.

The Single Best Content Marketing Channel for Your Startup “The single best content marketing channel is email subscriptions powered by Twitter/social media distribution.”

The bobblehead bubble Reflections on the telos of bobbleheads, in light of the Mariano bobblehead snafu.

Amos Oz on Writing Fiction and Arguing with Taxi Drivers “I don’t think there is a lasting happiness. I think this is unthinkable. In the Jewish tradition we have no less than six Hebrew words for joy: “simcha,” “alitzut,” “chedva,” “tzahala”, but no proper word for happiness and perhaps rightly so. Joy is something that […]

J.S. Bach – Chorale ‘Vor deinen Thron tret’ ich’ BWV 668 counterpoint85