Aldous
I’m rather depressed these days. It’s been years since anything I’ve done has turned out successfully — with a few rare exceptions — and I’m falling into the thing which afflicted you a couple of years ago — a failure of the will, shall we say. My ambitions seem far beyond my talents, and light-years [...]
Home ownership is “most stable financial investment”
→ everyone wants to buy a home, independent of his debt/income ratio
→ opportunistic (Capitalistic) lenders create loan packages so anyone, independent of his debt/income ratio, can buy a home
→ increased default rate affects solubility of large players in commercial paper markets
→ Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and other [...]
This Is Not Your Father’s Mishap
I’ve been watching debates and speeches and soundbites and videobites and reality bites. I’ve kept my ear to the grindstone, my eyes on the prize. I’m confused.
Any system as large as the U.S. economy, let alone an international economy, cannot be encapsulated in a two-hour series of rhetorical [...]
Where the Rubber Meets…Pedro?
Innovation. I likes me some innovation. Some people ask, “Daniel, why, after over seven years, haven’t you tired of your job?”
“Innovation,” I tell them. “It’s all around me, like a creative æther.”
Case in point: Today, my company announced a refreshed intranet for its North American properties. They [...]
They announced names. I listened.
“No, that’s not me.”
“That’s not me, either.”
This went on for the few days I was called in. Until Wednesday, the 27th.
They announced names. I listened.
“No, that’s not me.”
“That’s not me, eith–wait, that is me.”
“These jurors should go to lunch, and report back at 1:25.”
I didn’t leave. I told everyone I could [...]
I couldn’t wait to get into the Jury Commission office this morning. It’s not for the $19 a day, it’s not for the quite horrible free “coffee,” and it’s not for digital cable. I’m anxious to hear my name called.
This sort of investment is crazy hard to develop. The first thing we look for [...]
I’m on jury duty. I’ve been waiting for years for this opportunity. Honestly. I know it’s not 12 Angry Men or Law & Order: Melodrama Unit; that’s not what I want. What do I want? I’ll tell you.
I want to sit shoulder-to-shoulder with people I don’t know, who’ve been assembled [...]
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