June 2012
1 post
May 2012
10 posts
“Twitter is where news breaks; Facebook is where news goes. This is something...”
– BuzzFeed’s John Herrman • Making a wise point about how the Facebook IPO was really a much bigger story on Twitter than Facebook. Part of that, to us, is due to the way the networks work. “The site, as is, is great at building after-the-fact, heavily filtered digests,” Hermann explains, “While...
Big, Fat Cognitive Illusion
markdow:
Look at the first column. Once the giggles have subsided, and you’ve shown it to your colleagues so that they can share in the derision, don’t you wonder how it is that Greeks—and only the Greeks—believe they, and not the Germans, are the hardest working people in the Eurozone? Okay, you may be tempted to think it’s somehow a mistake. Or you might consider for a sec whether tax evasion...
“Men only, no females. The other requirement is that you must have some sort of...”
– Note to self: Worse comes to worse, I can always get a job in China. If they’ll overlook the tall and Harvard part.
Chinese business looking for a few good Jews | FP Passport (via felixsalmon)
“why of all the birds in the world did you choose the Israeli national bird to...”
– But it’s such a sweet bird!
The Israel boycott should extend to Star’s daily quiz / Letters / Home - Morning Star
April 2012
4 posts
On Being Blog: Shoah: A Table of Elements →
beingblog:
by Dov Abramson, guest contributor
“The trade of chemist (fortified, in my case, by the experience of Auschwitz), teaches you to overcome, indeed to ignore, certain revulsions that are neither necessary nor congenital: matter is matter, neither noble nor vile, infinitely…
“She brings to the table a lot of small nuances that are embedded culturally,”...”
– I can’t believe anyone would refer to his spouse as ‘bringing to the table’ something. Well, now he brings to the table… tea.
More Asian-Americans Marrying Within Their Race - NYTimes.com
March 2012
10 posts
“You must wake up every morning and choose to be happy. You gotta put on...”
– 14-year-old Khadim Diop at TEDxHarlem, echoing Alfred Hitchcock and millennia of science and philosophy. (via explore-blog)
A similar point made by octogenarians in that recent NYT piece. Once a man, twice a child - and twice getting it?
Introducing the Weinstein Law of Apple Stock...
As a corollary to Godwin’s Law of Nazi Analogies, I hereby declare the Weinstein Law of Apple stock analogies:
As an analysis of any stock market performance or third world nation’s GDP grows longer, the probability of a comparison to Apple approaches 1.
Today’s case in point, via Josh Brown: State Street vs Buffett
February 2012
8 posts
Israel Probably Won't Tell the U.S. If It's Going... →
I think this is the exact opposite of what’s actually happening now. From Israel’s perspective, it’s all about getting America to act at this point - and everything that gets floated to the media is aimed at raising the chances of that happening.
“The easiest way to tweak the bizknobs is to ask them whether “Sense of...”
– A personal history from a relatively new financial blogger I’ve come to really respect.
Impostor Syndrome « Interloper
“I heard the stuff about perks and gifts were “the tip of the iceberg.” Do ad...”
– Don’t ask what goes into the sausage of online advertising, you don’t want to know (jeans party!).
Confessions of an Ad Sales Exec | Digiday
RoiCarthy.com: CodeBlue - The Israeli Hacker... →
Oh this is great - a terrific initiative from roicarthy:
Hackers. The topic I have a conversation about at every industry event I attend. It’s always same conversation. And it’s been going on for at least three years. Hackers.
Or rather, the lack of hackers in the local market.
Put simply, our Startup Nation has been heading down a dangerous path…
January 2012
9 posts
“according to a friend in retailing, the average Facebook woman updates her...”
– I’m with Jeff on this one… FB has a good shot at becoming a more powerful marketing platform than even big G.
Jeff Matthews Is Not Making This Up: Is Facebook Killing Google? No, But…
“I am convinced that the education market is going to be upended in the next...”
– I think he’s right, and this is a course I’d like to take.
Musings on Markets: My small challenge to the “university” business model
“I wouldn’t think we created a big enough profile to spawn a malicious deed like...”
– That’s the way my grandparents’ generation thought. I didn’t think that twisted if-we-just-lay-low-and-act-like-real-americans-everything-will-be-ok attitude, with its concomitant if-they-abuse-us-it’s-our-fault was still around. Hoping the reporter took Mr. Goldberg’s...
“Chen claimed that he mistakenly sold those Occam shares while trying to sell...”
– Oh that’s a good one - I clicked on the wrong ticker!
Hedge Fund Legend Michael Steinhardt Sanctioned For Improper Trading - Forbes
Get my drift?
My British colleagues have an endearing way of ending a statement with: “Does that make sense?”
This is the equivalent of the Israeli: “Hevanta?’ (Understand?!)
There’s a lot to be said for Israeli candor, but in this case I prefer the British way. If something isn’t clear, the speaker implicitly takes responsibility for that. And if you think you disagree...
December 2011
2 posts
Books should be web-enabled
I don’t read as many books as I once did. I still make my way through two or three at a time and have a pile I’m waiting to begin (like Pooh Bear, I always like to know where my next pot of honey is coming from), but my pace is way slower than it was years ago. Part of this is having four kids and a demanding job, but part of it also is that I enjoy reading quality material online. I...
November 2011
5 posts
“So the problem is not that the E.C.B. can’t act but that it won’t. The obstacles...”
– So basically the whole European debt crisis is a large scale re-enactment of our near nightly discussions of how to respond to a misbehaving kid - teach them consequences or let this one pass. Germany has the kids stuck in their room for hours sweating it out awaiting their final decision.
Italy,...
Continuations: Sharing: One Network (To Rule Them... →
continuations:
Yesterday, Techmeme was ablaze with posts about sharing on Facebook’s Open Graph. A CNet post by Molly Wood with the title “How Facebook is ruining sharing” appears to have kicked it all off. In it she argues that the automated (“frictionless”) sharing via Open Graph apps results in a lot…
Makes sense in principle but most folks don’t want to build and actively...
“his legitimization of personal voice in his widely-syndicated newspaper column...”
– Anil Dash on Andy Rooney. I think that’s absolutely true. I remember watching Rooney at the end of 60 Minutes as a kid, loving his willingness to take on conventional wisdom and mass market consumerism. His constructive snark was a type of proto-blogosphere stance. He was fisking things while...
October 2011
1 post
