Monday, July 10, 2017

Bring red flags, lots of red flags – part IV:If your marketing is good, you don't have to be

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[This buzzword-filled and often somewhat patronizing (particularly at the beginning) New York Times Magazine account of entrepreneurs and Iv...
Friday, July 7, 2017

Yeah, "self-honouring" sounds much better

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We've been so focused on the embarrassing pseudoscience of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop that we've neglected all of the other embarrassing...
Thursday, July 6, 2017

Bring red flags, lots of red flags – Part III: burying the lede

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[This buzzword-filled and often somewhat patronizing (particularly at the beginning) New York Times Magazine account of entrepreneurs and I...

Haggling for medical services

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This is Joseph Lawyers, guns, and Money had an excellent pair of articles on shopping for health care, here and here .  I especially li...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Bring red flags, lots of red flags – Part II: Maybe too-good-to-be-true claims might be too good to be true

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[This buzzword-filled and often somewhat patronizing (particularly at the beginning) New York Times Magazine account of entrepreneurs and I...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Copland and Bernstein, plus Cohan rebutted

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Some music for the holiday. Listening to Cohan, it's easy to forget how controversial going to wa...
Monday, July 3, 2017

Bring red flags, lots of red flags – part I: "the Tesla of education companies"

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[This buzzword-filled and often somewhat patronizing (particularly at the beginning) New York Times Magazine account of entrepreneurs and I...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Murphy Apartments

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[Actually, the bathroom analogy does a much better job making a similar point. Damn you, Joseph!] The following is some combination of ac...
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Thursday, June 29, 2017

An analogy for self-driving cars

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This is Joseph I see this sentiment a lot with self-driving cars : Many industry observers, yours truly included, believe autonomous veh...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

A hump-day post from Charles Mackay

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I'm rereading Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds and I am struck once again by what a fine novelist's eye Ma...
Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Asking me not to overbill you means you hate children

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I always like to preface these stories of education reform abuse with a reminder that the vast majority of people on both sides of this issu...
Monday, June 26, 2017

The Goop criteria

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There's a lot of good reporting by Beth Skwarecki in this long but never boring expose of the Gwyneth Paltrow pseudoscience empire (whi...
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Friday, June 23, 2017

The sad part is that New York Magazine would probably write a puff piece for it

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Assuming Colbert could line up a celebrity business partner . [If you want actual journalism on Paltrow's pseudoscience, check out this ...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

An evergreen quote

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This is Joseph. I juts ran across this quote by Matt Yglesias  while reading another article : But it is entirely emblematic of America’...

This 2016 post on journalistic homogeneity has just gotten relevant again

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[When reading the overheated coverage of the Whole Foods acquisition, remember that the chain's relatively few locations are heavily c...