{"id":2262,"date":"2009-03-23T12:36:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T19:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2009-03-23T12:36:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T19:36:26","slug":"musings-from-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/03\/23\/musings-from-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings From the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sundries.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Warren Buffet is often attributed as saying, &#8220;only when the tide goes out do you discover who&#8217;s been swimming naked&#8221; referring to how a bad economy exposes problems in a business.  After reading too many comment sections on New York Times articles on the financial crisis, I think it should be &#8220;only when the tide goes out do you discover who&#8217;s a real communist.&#8221;  (Note, dear reader beginning to flame me in the comments, that I didn&#8217;t say whether I thought this was good or bad or neither good or bad.)  Hard economic times really bring out the daggers in economic ideology.  I love to watch (is that wrong?)<\/li>\n<li>Brad De Long <a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2009\/03\/needed-for-aig-and-the-tarp-silicon-valley-compensation-schemes.html\">argues<\/a> for Silicon Valley compensation schemes for Wall Street.  New phrase: <a href=\"http:\/\/delong.typepad.com\/sdj\/2009\/03\/needed-for-aig-and-the-tarp-silicon-valley-compensation-schemes.html?cid=6a00e551f08003883401116910be9e970c#comment-6a00e551f08003883401116910be9e970c\">brain dog<\/a> (&#8220;They&#8217;re not dumb&#8211;but there is a reason they hire physicists as their brain dogs.&#8221;)<\/li>\n<li>I was in Pittsburgh for most of the AIG bonus eruption.  Joe Nocera has the guts to chastise the flogging.<\/li>\n<li>An interesting paper on repeated success in entrepreneurship <a href=\"http:\/\/hbswk.hbs.edu\/item\/6045.html\">here<\/a>.  Main conclusion is that success bread success and that there is a certain myth in the Silicon Valley ideal that failure can be increase odds of succeeding.  Actually it seems to me that the later conclusion isn&#8217;t quite correct even from the data: if you argue for a persistence of success, then you should probably argue for a persistence in failure, and thus the fact that the odds of succeeding after a failure are the same as before is probably evidence for the truth of the myth.<\/li>\n<li>Mt. Redoubt in Alaska is <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/outposts\/2009\/03\/mt-redoubt-erup.html\">erupting<\/a>.  Insert Jingal and Palin joke here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ncaabracket.nytimes.com\/2010\/bracket\/men\/tX61xon2ufR\">My bracket<\/a> is a mess and the two teams I most closely associate myself with, UW and Cal, are both out.  My west coast bias now has me rooting for Arizona and Gonzaga.  At least I don&#8217;t have to root for USC \ud83d\ude09 <\/li>\n<li>Seattle is a <a href=\"http:\/\/raincityguide.com\/2009\/03\/20\/seattle-sounders-and-the-space-needle\/\">sparking city.<\/li>\n<li>Two, count them, two of my friends called me in the last week to report something they heard while listening to a Christian radio station in the middle of nowhere.  Why am I the first one that people think of when they hear Christian radio?<\/li>\n<li>On energy secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/23\/us\/politics\/23chu.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Steve Chu<\/a>: &#8220;&#8216;A Nobel scientist is more likely to figure out Washington than a career politician is to figure out how to deal with carbon sequestration,&#8217; Mr. Leistikow said.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The dog is disappointed in evolution:<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sundries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24,33,34,50,75,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog","category-geology","category-go-ahead-waste-your-time","category-off-the-deep-end","category-seattle","category-self-meet-center-center-meet-self"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}