Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Some things to keep in mind if you see Annie on New Year's Day

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There's a lot of history here. Most of the regulars probably know, I've got a great fondness for comics and their history, whether...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

I'll explain why later...

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but in the meantime, go download the Wake Up Now segment from This American Life . At least a half dozen threads converge on this one.

Robots, Railguns and Rube Goldberg

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I'm starting a weekly video feature over at the teaching blog (part of a bigger educational media project, but more on that later). For ...
Monday, December 29, 2014

The perils of bell curving

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This is Joseph. As people probably know, I tend to be a bit of a Marissa Mayer fan.  However, this one item from a recent piece is definit...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Modern War

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This is Joseph. Paul Krugman: Angell’s case was simple: Plunder isn’t what it used to be. You can’t treat a modern society the way ancie...
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Friday, December 26, 2014

Today's Principal Agent Problem

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This is Joseph From Mark Miller : The fix moving through Congress would revised the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) to g...
Thursday, December 25, 2014

Movies in the modern age

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This is Joseph, trying something new. I was very interested to read this piece on the focus on sequels : I believe that what studios see...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Happy Holidays

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Since 2009, Mark and I have used this as a forum for a lot of different topics.  From a blog that started about Epidemiology and a little bi...

Incentives and proper incentive alignment: a never-ending series

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This is Joseph. Mark has promised a post on this topic, so I thought that I'd start the show by revisiting the issue with Amazon and w...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Sony's hypercube -- they keep finding new sides to cave in on

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First they caved in when Rogen and Franco came in with a bad idea for a movie that was certain to be more trouble than it was worth. ...

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

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This is an off-topic post by Joseph I just wanted to point out this review .  I think Howard Taylor hits most of my high points and he is ...

Accountability is for little people continued -- more thoughts on the Sony hack

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I'm not quite sure what to call it, but most business reporting suffers from the journalistic equivalent of regulatory capture. There ar...
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Monday, December 22, 2014

I'm more comfortable blaming the victim a little when the victim has a market cap of twenty billion

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While in no way taking away from the magnitude of the criminal acts involved in the Sony hacks, it is important to remember that upper-level...
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Friday, December 19, 2014

Checking in on the last next big thing

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I'm working on a longer piece that involves Uber and I got to thinking about the big discussion we had about Groupon back in 2011. Many...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

A quick note on Kružno, official game of the village of Kružno*

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I've got a couple more post I'd like to do on Kružno, the abstract strategy game I developed a few years ago, a post on abstract...