Aug 22 2008
I wouldn’t usually blog on celebrity gossip, but this was almost—almost—too much to resist. I feel the same way as the author of this Esquire article about the tainting of the book, Where the Wild Things Are. However, I do not share the author’s opinion of writer Dave Eggers, the guy adapting the book for [...]
Aug 22 2008
I’m sure there are many things that happen in this world most world-citizens wouldn’t comprehend. What happens behind close doors, in the minds and lives of multi-national conglomerates is a reality so far removed from our daily lives that we hardly inhabit the same plane of existence.
Are Oil Prices Rigged?
Aug 22 2008
I’m thinking Warren Buffett knows something the rest of us, including the President, don’t. I could be wrong. But, on matter of money, economics, and capitalism, I’m more apt to trust Buffett’s word over that of a guy (read: George W. Bush) who has failed in single business venture in his career.
Buffett: US Still in [...]
Aug 22 2008
Utter. Flawless. Perfect. Genius. The government’s efficiency near ceases to amaze me. Keep the brilliant ideas flowing, boys. You’re bound to strike gold one of these days.
Self-Deportation Program Scrapped
Aug 22 2008
If you’re like me, total manipulation is key to any relationship. Good interview, to which I would recommend for anyone in business to read Kevin Hogan’s The Science of Influence.
The Science of Getting a ‘Yes’
Aug 22 2008
I by no means have all the statistics relevant to this issue. But, as a former high school and college student from a small university city, I know how much drinking goes on in backyard parties, fraternities, and the like. So, I’m not sure the drinking age is the problem, or whether lowering that legal [...]
Aug 22 2008
Homage to my second favorite four-letter word. You may want to adjust the volume, depending where you are…enjoy.
Aug 22 2008
Never look for the matter itself in one place and progress in another. [That is not progress.] If any of you, withdrawing himself from externals, turns to his own will ([Greek: proairesis]) to exercise it and to improve it by labor, so as to make it conformable to nature, elevated, free, unrestrained, unimpeded, faithful, modest; [...]
Aug 22 2008
I know this kind of a long one, and doesn’t necessarily lend itself well to blogging. So, I’ve divided it into two separate posts. It’s less cohesive this way, but Epictetus’s emphasis is stronger, more prominent.
In the first post, Epictetus discusses the nature of progress. One of my favorite lines from Alfred North Whitehead [...]
Aug 21 2008
One more before we take ‘er in for the night. Here is a hint of good old fashioned duality. There exists in every person the duality between the divinity of one’s soul and the materialism of one’s body. A theme running through most of philosophy’s history. Here, however, since Epictetus is a stoic, rather than [...]