Baseball Prospectus | Manufactured Runs: The Madness of King Bill “If you aren’t explicit in deciding that what you’re looking at is relative, that doesn’t mean you’ll be answering things in absolute terms, it means you’ll be answering things relative to a baseline that you haven’t decided on with a clear rationale, and probably without […]

1986 Summer Anne Burton, NotGraphs Baseball

When do we stop being interested in new things? What can this teach us about happiness? (author unknown), Barking up the wrong tree

Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup – Class 10 Notes Essay “It’s hard; entrepreneurs are congenitally wired to be too early. And being too early is a bigger problem for entrepreneurs than not being correct. It’s very hard to sit and just wait for things to arrive. It almost never works. You burn through your capital. You […]

Capitalism—Posner – The Becker-Posner Blog ” Greenspan and other like-minded economists and political leaders were wrong to think capitalism self-regulating; they neglected the need for an institutional structure, and a culture, that differentiate successful from unsuccessful capitalist economies.”

johnroderick I’ve been reflecting on my Hilton experience of yesterday. Please read this while I collect my thoughts: http://t.co/PU1yQePd

jlwoj Bud Selig and Ron Moore have long, pot-fueled discussions about the lurking dangers of robots.

bos31337 Only in San Francisco. http://t.co/4Wc5SWc7

Ray Fosse and Scott Hatteberg jasonw@beaneball.org (Jason Wojciechowski), Beaneball

10 Timeframes | Contents Magazine “If we are going to ask people, in the form of our products, in the form of the things we make, to spend their heartbeats—if we are going to ask them to spend their heartbeats on us, on our ideas, how can we be sure, far more sure than we […]