January 2011
12 posts
Do Nothing for 2 Minutes →
“I could have bought maybe 10,000 In N’ Out burgers. I’d rather do...”
– Ron Artest on his delight at not having to pay a fine for a technical
Calls against Ron Artest, Blake Griffin rescinded by NBA - ESPN Los Angeles
“In a few years, we’ll look back in amazement that in 2011 we still used brokers...”
– cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog / Predicting the future of the Internet is easy: anything it hasn’t yet dramatically transformed, it will.
David Brooks' Secret
Gail Collins: Actually, you may be the only political columnist in America today who is both extremely popular and extremely moderate. What’s your secret?
David Brooks: Sexual charisma.
The Ugly Sunset of the Weapons Ban | The Harvard... →
One of the first pieces I wrote for the Crimson has become relevant again in light of the recent Arizona shootings. I worked for Senator Diane Feinstein during the summer of 2004 who championed the Assault Weapons Ban and watched it expire due to callous political calculations. John Donahue, a law professor here at Stanford, calls out the sunset of the ban among the culprits in last...
“Enron-type accounting standards have become the norm”
– On the sad ways in which schools manipulate their #’s to game USNews
Is Law School a Losing Game? - NYTimes.com
“If you focus only on painkillers, you’ll likely miss out on a completely...”
– The Pleasure Principle: Not All Products Need To Be Painkillers
“Twitter will be unbundled…What rises to replace it will either be an open...”
– Scripting News: What will become of Twitter?
This is right.
“Embedded in every step of execution are ideas, or put differently, assertions of...”
– Let’s End the Myth that Ideas are Worthless | Assetmap