July 2010
11 posts
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“In 10 years time, you will be thought of as the one person who understood how...”
– Fix Congress First Job Opening: Social Media Maven
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“For me, a double-dip is another recession before we’ve healed from this...”
– Robert Shiller, professor of economics at Yale University
Sorry this wasn’t a picture of a happy puppy.
“73% of iPhone users are very satisfied with AT&T’s service.”
– Most iPhone users love AT&T (via hiten)
Cognitive dissonance anyone?
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“I also believe that conventional monetary policy is tapped out, and...”
– J Bradford Delong, Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, writing back in January of 2009. The Fed might as well have read this excerpt as their recent official testimony to congress. It seemed to me Bernanke said, “Anyone got any ideas? I’m open to brainstorming here!”
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“I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet. (via dihard) (via rahmin)
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Read this speech - Solitude and Leadership
I found so many truths in William Deresiewicz’s Solitude and Leadership.
I’ve chosen this particular excerpt because it goes really well with another recent quote I shared with the caveat that this passage is much much more powerful amid the rest of the text with the context and exquisite organization that the full piece provides:
Introspection means talking to yourself, and one...
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It’s summer.
“We might say of friendships that they are a matter not of diversion or of return...”
– http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/friendship-in-an-age-of-economics/