Jan 26, 2008
Entrepreneurship flourishes when there are diseconomies of scale and dies when there are economies of scale.

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Jan 25, 2008
Bush’s inspiring, prosyletizing Methodist is in fact a silver-tongued horse thief fleeing from a lynch mob.

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Jan 25, 2008
We completely fell into the “if you build it, they will come” trap. We built it. Nobody came.

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Jan 25, 2008
Sometimes I think that they call them Whitepapers because you’re getting snowed.

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Jan 24, 2008
The name “Australia” is derived from the Latin Australis, meaning “Southern”. Legends of an “unknown land of the south” (terra australis incognita) dating back to Roman times were commonplace in mediæval geography..

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Jan 24, 2008
To clarify, add detail.

Clutter is not an attribute of information but a failure of design.

Edward Tuftevideo

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Jan 24, 2008
There are two separate social hierarchies, one based on wealth (desperate, nervous, coasting) and one on education (reads nothing, reads Time, reads The Economist). The two used to be tied together because only the rich could afford education. In the 20th century they drifted apart. The interesting question is whether they will converge again, not because wealth causes education, but because education causes wealth.

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Jan 23, 2008
The media is not ideologically driven but conflict-driven.
Jon Meachamvideo

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Jan 22, 2008
The short head will be human, the fat middle social, and the long tail algorithmic.

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Jan 22, 2008
I don’t see much difference between bossing my kid around academically and bossing him around the way I do about everything else.

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