Master of None

'Jack of all trades, master of none' is a figure of speech used in reference to a person that is competent with many skills but is not necessarily outstanding in any particular one. - Wikipedia

Sailing. Finance. Banjo. Video games. Science. Identity. Politics. Economics. NEW YORK. Anything awesome.
Jan 27
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» Steve Waldman's gospel: 'Bankers’ adversarial view of regulation, their clear delight in treating legal constraint as an obstacle to overcome rather than a standard to aspire to, is perverse...One cannot create culture by fiat...What you can do by fiat is dismember organizations with clearly deficient cultures.'
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Jan 25
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» Sumner offers some clarity: 'The entire world is evolving toward a near 100% service economy in terms of jobs (not output.)'
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Jan 24
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» NYTimes: '[The earnings results of the 2011 holiday quarter] increased the total value of Apple’s shares to more than $426 billion, pushing its market value past that of Exxon Mobil and making it the most highly valued company.'
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Jan 23
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» Interfluidity does not have nice things to say about our financial system: 'Banking crises are evidence of banking, and banking is evidence of the recruitment of dispersed capital that enables industrialization and development.'
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» NY Times on building the iPhone: 'The company’s analysts had forecast it would take as long as nine months to find that many qualified engineers in the United States. In China, it took 15 days.'
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Jan 20
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» Paul Romer on socioeconomic systems: 'Give someone a fish, you feed them for a day. Teach someone to fish, you destroy another aquatic ecosystem.'
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Jan 19
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» This is horrifying: 'India and China are said to eliminate more female infants than the number of girls born in the US each year...Taiwan, South Korea and Pakistan are also countries in which unwanted female babies are aborted, killed or abandoned.'
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» Alex Tabarrok points out sad but unsurprising facts: 'States with tougher licensing of dentists do not have better dentistry, but they do have higher prices. Almost thirty percent of the US workforce is now required to hold a license, including shampoo specialists.'
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» Shit New Yorkers Say

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Jan 17
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» Wikimedia Foundation fighting the good fight: 'SOPA and PIPA are just indicators of a much broader problem. All around the world, we're seeing the development of legislation intended to fight online piracy, and regulate the Internet in other ways, that hurt online freedoms.'
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Jan 12
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» Ryan Avent: 'It is those who have benefited most from recent labour-market developments that have the most to lose from a breakdown in the system. One would think that if a return to Clinton-era top tax rates was what it took to purchase the quiescence of the 99%, that it just might be worth it to avoid any broader populist movement.'
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Jan 10
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» E. B. White: 'Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say, the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society—things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.'
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» Lakhdar Boumediene: 'I’m told that my Supreme Court case is now read in law schools. Perhaps one day that will give me satisfaction, but so long as Guantánamo stays open and innocent men remain there, my thoughts will be with those left behind in that place of suffering and injustice.'
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» David Brooks in the NYTimes: 'There is no Steve Jobs figure in American liberalism insisting that the designers keep government simple, elegant and user-friendly. Sailors scrub their ships. Farmers clear weeds. Democrats have not spent a lot of time scraping barnacles off the state.'
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Jan 09
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» Learn something new every day: Fresh farm eggs (that have never been washed or refrigerated) will keep up to 4-6 months as long as you flip them over once a week. After a while, you can check freshness by submerging in water; as long as they sink, they are still fresh.
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