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

“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 same time. The result, as you’d expect, is more brinksmanship and more high-stakes showdowns.”

Pretty good summary of the most common biases and fallacies.

“The single best content marketing channel is email subscriptions powered by Twitter/social media distribution.”

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

“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 comes and goes. … The founding fathers and mothers of the kibbutz community believed that they can change human nature in one blow. … This was naive, it was unrealistic. Human nature is almost unchangeable, certainly it cannot be changed in one blow, and in one generation.”