10.17.2011
10.16.2011
10.11.2011
My Prediction for the Economy
The recession that began in 2008 actually coincided with 7 fat years,
relatively speaking. Starting in 2014, real recession/depression with
high market volatility and global surrealism will commence (7 lean years). Investors
who stay the course and go long with oil here will do well.
My Comment to Google
So I think there were avoidable missteps with Google+.
1. You can't post on someone's wall.
2. In the name of privacy, Google went too far and now sharing with circles, etc. is too complicated. Google+ would be helpful if I had 4+ groups of people I share stuff with. I don't, and neither do many others. They just have 1 group, maybe 2. So every time I post, I just put in a couple of people's names. What is funny is that Facebook thinks it can one-up this by adding similar functionality without the complexity. We'll see.
I think Google should have taken the same approach with Google+ that it did with Gmail. Strip it down to its simplest, give it a web 2.0 interface, and generally leave it alone. If you can't build the simplest social media site, you don't really understand what it does.
Google made its name by focusing on the nerdery: Search. Start there; reduce the equation to start with the fewest possible steps to social electronic sharing. Start over; reboot if you have to.
1. You can't post on someone's wall.
2. In the name of privacy, Google went too far and now sharing with circles, etc. is too complicated. Google+ would be helpful if I had 4+ groups of people I share stuff with. I don't, and neither do many others. They just have 1 group, maybe 2. So every time I post, I just put in a couple of people's names. What is funny is that Facebook thinks it can one-up this by adding similar functionality without the complexity. We'll see.
I think Google should have taken the same approach with Google+ that it did with Gmail. Strip it down to its simplest, give it a web 2.0 interface, and generally leave it alone. If you can't build the simplest social media site, you don't really understand what it does.
Google made its name by focusing on the nerdery: Search. Start there; reduce the equation to start with the fewest possible steps to social electronic sharing. Start over; reboot if you have to.
10.03.2011
9.27.2011
On the Making of Shook Ones Pt. II
“I made that beat inside my mother’s house in Queensbridge. That house
gave me a lot of inspiration because something could happen outside and I
could go upstairs and make a beat. Like, I would have this feeling
like, ‘Let me go upstairs and make a beat of how I'm feeling right now.’" -- Havoc
From: http://www.complex.com/music/2011/04/the-making-of-mobb-deep-the-infamous/shook-ones-ii#
From: http://www.complex.com/music/2011/04/the-making-of-mobb-deep-the-infamous/shook-ones-ii#
9.26.2011
Wikiquote quote of the day:
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten
thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity
of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a
better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten
thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity
of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a
better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald
<http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/
9.24.2011
9.23.2011
9.22.2011
Futurism
The U.S. faces high unemployment and I feel as if Bernanke's "Twist" is in fact a negative inflection point in the fortunes of the U.S. economy and the global economy as a whole (cf. here). Ideally, investment money would flow to growing industrial sectors, exports would increase, and employment would pick up, but with the U.S. economy largely service-oriented now, this proposition is pretty lame. Much industry has already been exported overseas.
Questions:
To what degree will the rich retract and protect the base, effectively walling or gating themselves off from underclass America a la South Africa?
What can be done about unemployment and underemployment? Do communities of self-sufficiency make sense as a homegrown solution? Is Mondragon an example or should the communities not focus on factory-like production and economies of scale to succeed (and thereby buck the "rules" of surviving in the global marketplace (e.g. favoring techne (the craftman, mechanic) over episteme (the capitalist rules of the game))?
Questions:
To what degree will the rich retract and protect the base, effectively walling or gating themselves off from underclass America a la South Africa?
What can be done about unemployment and underemployment? Do communities of self-sufficiency make sense as a homegrown solution? Is Mondragon an example or should the communities not focus on factory-like production and economies of scale to succeed (and thereby buck the "rules" of surviving in the global marketplace (e.g. favoring techne (the craftman, mechanic) over episteme (the capitalist rules of the game))?
9.07.2011
9.06.2011
How to Rein in Medicaid Costs
"Fascinating concept, it’s not necessarily a pejorative term ! So, we have implemented a Panopticon without walls."
9.05.2011
9.01.2011
Is Obama a scold and a pedant?
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-failing-extend-highway-bill-inexcusable-145613675.html
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-failing-extend-highway-bill-inexcusable-145613675.html
8.31.2011
8.29.2011
8.28.2011
8.25.2011
8.08.2011
Records are Melting
"I’m throwing the records and it’s like, alright, cool we’re going through it. But it’s so hot the heat is actually warping the records. The records is melting! So the records are warping right before me and it’s just like woooommp. And Big looking at me. We had this thing like, every time you make a mistake on stage during the show, you get fined $100. So during the show, Big heard the first womp, and he was like “A hundred dollars!” The record is crumbling up right before my eyes. Then it’s getting bad and Cease is like, “Two hundred dollars!” And then Big, he just stopped everything and was like, “Yo! What the fuck is going on?!” I’m looking and my records look like a piece of bacon back there. Big is tight! He had a water bottle, he threw the water bottle at me, and just walks off the stage." -- DJ Big Kap
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