Jim Willis

  • Bright Saturday-morning sun refracts off the snow onto my kitchen walls while I make the kids blueberry pancakes and listen to Lloyd Cole

  • Business Report – Obscene larceny of executive pay is the most glaring abuse

    Business Report – Obscene larceny of executive pay is the most glaring abuse

    I heard this guy on NPR this morning. This article captures his key ideas: Under the capitalist system, there is a time-honoured method of amassing wealth: it is called buying stock. Owners of stock…

  • Coverage of the council talk I gave is in The Hub: http://tinyurl.com/af3k4g (Anyone have a hardcopy of this they can share?)

  • Making some stuffed bread to bring to SB party. Perpperoni, hot cherry peppers and cheese. Perhaps a pic to follow.

  • Flag football is on! It’s a balmy 30f today. Bring your game face, I’ll be taking pictures for the 2008-season trading cards.

  • Having French fries and gravy at the red bank diner with the family. Priming the system after the flu.

  • If the only thing I ever get out of boxee.tv is having found this talking heads video, it will be enough: http://tinyurl.com/azdszd

  • Questions for J.D. Trout – Dr. Feel It – Interview – NYTimes.com

    Questions for J.D. Trout – Dr. Feel It – Interview – NYTimes.com

    It’s nice to see someone stand up to Solomon (who can just be a shrew of an interviewer sometimes). This guy’s book is going on my to-read list.

  • Just finally took advantage of my boxee.tv invite. With boxee’s hulu and netflix integration, why does anyone pay for cable?

  • Anyone have a queue of netflix “watch instantly” flix that they’d care to share with us? Wading thru the NF interface for WI blows.

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Reading Notes

  • Read: Manufactured Anxiety: How Self-Improvement Became a Self Destruct Sequence
    Who profits from our constant state of dissatisfaction? The answer, of course, is painfully obvious. Every industry that sells a solution to a problem you […]
  • Read: My Friends Aren’t Reading
    the shifts have been in place for awhile. A certain kind of book—say those reviewed in the NYRB—will become like opera, or theater, or ballet, […]
  • Read: Pema Chödrön’s Three Methods for Working with Chaos
    • No more struggle: “Whatever arises, train again and again in seeing it for what it is. The innermost essence of mind is without bias. […]
  • Read: Why Not Bluesky
    The real problem, in my mind, isn’t in the nature of this particular Venture-Capital operation. Because the whole raison-d’etre of Venture Capital is to make […]
  • Read: The Tech Coup
    . The EU invokes a mechanism called the precautionary principle in cases where an innovation, such as GMOs, has not yet been sufficiently researched for […]

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