Everyone seems to agree that the recovery’s going to be slow (except maybe in Asia), and many actually doubt it can be sustained at all. And yet the markets keep rallying. Faced with the choice of nominal gains or no gains at all, investors have opted for the former, in the hope that they’ll come out [...]
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On American Exceptionalism
28Jul09I saw this recently: The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin I don’t claim to know what Mr. Franklin was thinking, but I find it telling that the quote works equally well if you leave out the second sentence. That, my friends, [...]
Moaning about +/-
26Apr09Game 4 between Utah and L.A. last night provides an interesting data point in considering the usefulness of +/- as a basketball stat. We’ve all seen instances where a player who contributes very little statistically ends up with a phenomenally high +/- rating, while the team’s stars are rated as having played poorly. Occasionally, this [...]
Dean Kamen on Innovators
13Jan09Something worth hanging on to for rainy days: Kamen … said every entrepreneurial innovator he’s ever seen shares a few characteristics. “It’s not that they’re brilliant or well-educated,” Kamen said. “They work all the time. They don’t let failure demoralize or destroy them. They pick themselves up and keep going and eventually, every once in a while, [...]
Corruption and Development
23Nov08I was quite excited to find this blog post but now that I’ve read it, I’m a little disappointed. It’s a bit wishy washy in the way academic articles can be and doesn’t really get much further than defining corruption and categorising it as high-level and low-level. The reason for that is probably the extreme complexity [...]
Un Ke Dekhe Se – Mirza Ghalib
13Nov08Un ke dekhe se jo aa jati hai mun par ronaq, Woh samajhtey hain keh beemar ka haal accha hai. Dekhiye paate hain usshaq buton se kya faiz, Ek brahman ne kaha hai keh yeh saal accha hai. Hum ko maaloom hai jannat ki haqeeqat laikin, Dil kay khush rakhnay ko Ghalib yeh khayal accha hai. And here’s the wonderful Jagjit [...]
Whoa.
16Jul08Check this out. I need more time to process it (and read up on most of them)…but whoa. And there’s our man Aitzaz Ahsan at #5! (Obligatory disclaimer: I don’t trust Aitzaz Ahsan for a minute.)
Protected: Staying Awake
12Jun08There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
I don’t like sports writers. I don’t like the contrived soundbites they convey, the cliched storylines they create, the false drama they so carefully cultivate. I don’t like the fact that most of them have no real qualifications, but a few years on the circuit gives them the title of ‘expert’ and, for example, allows [...]
Insanity
18Nov07There’s so much of it to pick from, but here’s a sampler: The IJT has expelled 17 members over the Imran Khan incident. Yay. But brace yourself now for the ‘operation’ that the IJT will launch to maintain its ‘hold on PU’. Na Islami, na Talib, siraf Jamia. Mr. Musharraf isn’t in right now. Choice quote: “Before [...]
Stages of intelligence
25Aug07Certainty Uncertainty Certainty about uncertainty Uncertainty about uncertainty Certainty about the uncertainty of uncertainty I’m not sure if that pattern continues (there’s a tower law in there after stage 5, I think). My data suggests ‘achievers’ inhabit the odd-numbered stages; ‘thinkers’ and ‘feelers’ inhabit the even-numbered ones. Make sense?
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