Technology, economics, language, and the tenacious grasp of human irrationality

Posts

• Voluntary Tax Payments & Tax Policy - February 21, 2017
• The news is noise. Obviously - June 6, 2016
• Language rules as enablers of evil - June 5, 2016
• Social Surveillance - May 1, 2013
• The expectations of 'can' - June 3, 2012
• Web Finance: Past and Future - November 27, 2011
• The Rise of New Colonial Farming - November 22, 2009
• Popper on Health Care Reform - August 27, 2009
• The Genesis of the Vegetarian Diet - August 20, 2009
• I saved the dodo bird and all I got was this lousy tshirt - August 20, 2009
• Limited Upside and Healthcare IT Innovation - July 23, 2009
• Screw you, median voter - July 8, 2009
• Medicinal marijuana and social media - May 8, 2009
• Imagining a fearful future - March 8, 2009
• Campaign finance distortions and the size of Congress - a thought - February 23, 2009
• Is salaried overtime theft? - February 21, 2009
• Child Poverty by US State - January 18, 2009
• Blog Fail and Social Media as a form of post-modern psychic masturbation - January 15, 2009
• NCAA football by the numbers - December 14, 2008
• Dude, where's my Congressionally subsidized car? - December 8, 2008
• Lessons in design from developing world cookery - December 7, 2008
• No, Twitter isn't for everyone - December 3, 2008
• Loose credit, by land or by air - November 29, 2008
• Heart-strings trip up rational giving - November 29, 2008
• Terry McAuliffe will 'create jobs' - cold fusion next? - November 11, 2008
• Let no one mourn the newspaper - November 6, 2008
• The Department of The Totally Unsurprised - November 3, 2008
• Thank Yahoo, Google, and Facebook for The Wire and Mad Men - October 16, 2008
• A little story about everyday computing - October 16, 2008
• Traffic: a lesson in general human interaction - September 30, 2008
• The banking crisis and what to do (in 5 minutes) - September 18, 2008
• Lawmakers crack down on salvia - September 9, 2008
• Do what is best for the USG - September 9, 2008
• Why does jargon corrupt meaning? - September 3, 2008
• Safety versus the feeling of safety - July 28, 2008
• Drop your ideals and plan with messy reality - July 28, 2008
• Lock in airfare with ticket options - July 1, 2008
• Bush le gusta a "Reparar el Muro" - June 27, 2008
• Harris Telemacher, threat advisor - June 27, 2008
• What happens when we provide too many instructions - June 24, 2008
• TSA: They need to ask the questions - June 11, 2008
• Management Advice in Everything: Marketing Yourself - June 9, 2008
• Bush Lied? - June 9, 2008
• Whom to bankrupt with defense spending? - June 4, 2008
• Clip Art as a hammer - May 28, 2008
• Thinking about bottlenecks and institutions - May 14, 2008
• How accurate are your weather forecasts? Or your economic forecasts? - April 28, 2008
• Crammed with sexual predators - April 23, 2008
• Testing architectural designs in virtual spaces - April 16, 2008
• I don't understand advocacy of the death penalty - April 8, 2008
• "In regards to" your corporate blog - April 2, 2008
• Commitment options - March 31, 2008
• Bum Dollars - March 28, 2008
• Tightening the Kill Chain - March 27, 2008
• UnREAL - March 24, 2008
• Expensive coal, cheap electricity? - March 20, 2008
• Woolsey on energy and the Middle East - March 13, 2008
• Microsoft Lookout!!! - March 4, 2008
• What law school can't teach you - February 29, 2008
• Computers learn intensionally - February 28, 2008
• Area weathermen get rained on - February 22, 2008
• Marching orders in knowledge work - February 21, 2008
• Distinguishing between believers and beliefs - February 20, 2008
• Thoughts on duplicating success - February 14, 2008
• The best Microsoft product? - February 14, 2008
• Rational voting strategy - February 13, 2008
• If Web 2.0 is all about user generated content and interaction... - February 11, 2008
• Business cults: project management - February 4, 2008
• The accidental purposes of jargon - January 31, 2008
• What would it look like if a bank designed its branches like its website? - January 30, 2008
• Tuesday's Sentence 'o the Day (Jan 29th) - January 29, 2008
• Monday's Sentence o' the Day (Jan 28th) - January 29, 2008
• The Government Sucks At Branding - January 24, 2008
• No Wonder Investor Confidence is Low - January 22, 2008
• Misspoken Friday - January 18, 2008
• Jargon SMACK-down Thursday! - January 17, 2008
• Maudlin and Ineffectual - January 15, 2008
• Obesity now a lifestyle choice... with butter! - January 11, 2008
• Fire Sale! Your House, For Sale! - January 11, 2008
• Sometimes I computer at work - January 10, 2008
• First World Obestiy and Income - January 9, 2008
• Morning programming - January 7, 2008
• Do I look like a modem? - January 7, 2008
• Godin says Overdeliver - January 4, 2008
• Culture: Reputation and Training - December 31, 2007
• And tigers, oh my! - December 27, 2007
• Resolving to fail - December 26, 2007
• Marginal Resolutions - December 26, 2007
• The Chain-Email Heuristic - December 21, 2007
• Experimental Economics in Virtual Worlds - December 21, 2007
• Giuliani Starring in Warner Bros. Movie? - December 20, 2007
• RIP, Kermit the Frog - December 19, 2007
• Employees as an asset, where's the CRM? - December 19, 2007
• Braille Signs - December 19, 2007
• Leverage alert - December 6, 2007
• Narratives in business - December 4, 2007
• Jargon Tuesday - December 4, 2007
• Misspoken, part one - December 3, 2007
• An exercise in bias - December 3, 2007
• 100 posts and a goal - December 3, 2007
• Trade offs - December 2, 2007
• Jargon Thursday! - November 8, 2007
• Nature Intended! - November 7, 2007
• Evolve: do use the passive voice - November 7, 2007
• This is the song that never ends! - November 6, 2007
• Additional jargon selections - October 26, 2007
• Jargon abroad - October 25, 2007
• What would you rather have? - October 23, 2007
• Fallacy o' the day - October 23, 2007
• Do we jargon because we cache? - October 23, 2007
• The Poverty of Intuition - October 19, 2007
• More crappy jargon - October 11, 2007
• Meetings and social grooming - October 11, 2007
• The ultimatum game as monkey business - October 10, 2007
• Neckties and decorative shutters - October 9, 2007
• Envy and zero-sum games - October 9, 2007
• Trade and nation states - October 4, 2007
• Stultifying words (jargon, continued) - October 2, 2007
• Missing articles, prepositions, what it mean? - October 2, 2007
• Morning musings - September 28, 2007
• Culture shock, corporate version - July 24, 2007
• The light bulb farm - July 10, 2007
• Facebook + job hunt - July 9, 2007
• Thoughts on The Myth of the Rational Voter (i) - June 28, 2007
• Efficient learning vs. effective learning - June 28, 2007
• Justice Roberts is a brilliant ninny - June 26, 2007
• Web technology innovations - June 25, 2007
• Something's wrong in Chicago - June 22, 2007
• Failure -> introspection - June 21, 2007
• Corporate wiki adoption - June 21, 2007
• Reading The Black Swan; notes & thoughts (ii) - June 18, 2007
• Extensible products are winning - June 18, 2007
• Life advice II - June 15, 2007
• Laws hindering innovation - June 15, 2007
• Reading The Black Swan; notes & thoughts (i) - June 12, 2007
• Meetings and Walking - June 12, 2007
• Sanitized Society and Node Distance - June 4, 2007
• Afghan joke - May 16, 2007
• Recycling: a third step - May 14, 2007
• Traffic as a game - March 27, 2007
• Retail/market paradigm shifts - March 1, 2007
• Is Baumol’s cost disease wrong? - March 1, 2007
• Project management in the kitchen - February 27, 2007
• Managing by feedback - February 22, 2007
• How do colony based species evolve? - February 22, 2007
• QOTD - February 21, 2007
• The Freedom to Suck It Up? - February 8, 2007
• Money Lies - February 7, 2007
• Are small business contracting set asides a racket? Part 1? - December 27, 2006
• Organized musings - December 18, 2006
• Foreign conscience? - December 13, 2006
• Feminism jokes - November 28, 2006
• Our goals and way of life - November 21, 2006
• Le Universitat - November 21, 2006
• Nice - November 17, 2006
• Civil society and the dynamism of contemporary liberal society - November 11, 2006
• Election Day Analysis - November 8, 2006
• War Lies Torture Corruption - November 7, 2006
• The malleable institution of marriage - October 27, 2006
• The Bible in the classroom - October 27, 2006
• Corporate Governance & Principal-Agent Problems - October 1, 2006
• Initial thoughts on Rothbard and War - September 21, 2006
• Information Asymmetry - September 7, 2006
• Idle Money - September 5, 2006
• Rights and Wrongs - April 10, 2006
• Amen! - April 3, 2006
• Jargonomics (first post, more expected) - April 1, 2006
• Property Values - March 30, 2006
• Family structures - November 18, 2005
• Anchor - July 22, 2005

…or you can find more in the archives.