The use of math in economics is to winnow the aspirants.
Sep 292015
Working
Business is more agreeable than pleasure; it interests the whole mind more continuously, and more deeply.
—Bagehot
Sep 172015
“Because I can” is a fundamental and oft-overlooked principle of human behavior.
Jun 292015
An actor should be vulgar and insignificant off the stage: we prefer him as someone else.
May 272015
Expert judgment is two parts inconsistency and one part bad memory.
May 072015
You think you have a job. What you have is a consulting company with only one client.
Apr 302015
One cannot read journalism without being struck by how often journalism is its subject.
Apr 272015
It is a grievous error to regard the principle of first doing no harm as applying only, or especially, to doctors.
Apr 012015
You used to have to pay people to wear sandwich boards.
Mar 182015
Content, n. Advertising for the advertising.
Mar 132015
It’s all fun and games until someone gets paid.