Archive for March, 2009

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Why the internet is different from newspapers

I just listened to your Klosterman dialogue, (between him and Simmons) and I felt that he missed a critical issue in the relative nature of your ESPN position “the box” versus a columnist for a paper, and that would be the threshold. What I mean, specifically, is the level of difficulty needed to find an [...]

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Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Black Swan

Just finished ‘The black Swan’. It makes an interesting point that events can vary greatly from the norm, and this variance can often be bad (stock wipe-out) or good, serendipitous book sales. Of course, the latter only occurs when the outcome exceeds expectation. Here I mean expectation based on output of resources, not some dude [...]

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