HD NFL football on a big screen is amazing, and far more exciting than being at the actual game. But the most interesting thing about football for me is the anthropology behind it, and this aspect is best documented in HBO’s annual mini-series, Hard Knocks: Training Camp. It’s a 5ish episode-long series that covers a [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Business’
November 9, 2009
On the Health Care Debate
[read my previous post on this subject for more context]
Tea Party Rally (Again)
On Wednesday, I went on a 5 mile run to the Capitol and back to my apartment before my afternoon shift of work began. On the west lawn of the Capitol was a fairly sizeable Tea Party rally that took up most of [...]
August 4, 2009
Labor Costs
One of the topics I want to study more about is what we’re all going to do in the future for work and jobs. Part of the sharp upheaval of the 20th century of rapid economic development was that a stable career was not sustainable except for certain professions. It is true in the US [...]
July 26, 2009
Surpluses and Shortages
I’m moving out of my Georgetown rowhouse and just started my job, so I’ve been a little busy and haven’t been able to write much. That’s one reason Twitter is so great — I’ve been able to just send some quick tweets (the other reason it’s so great is its generativity (see Jonathan Zittrain) — [...]
June 16, 2009
Job Hunting
So a lot of my friends and recent graduates are looking for jobs now. That process is miserable, as I wrote about earlier.
I enjoyed a NYTimes article on how employers should be nice to applicants. Now, I just got a job and had a wonderful experience, so not all employers are bad.
But many employers vacuum [...]
June 16, 2009
We Want No Taxation, No Representation
Financial time bombs are no longer shocking to discover these days. Collateralized debt obligations, the American auto industry, real estate, credit, struggling state government balance sheets, etc.
IRC Stupidity
Yesterday Obama gave a speech on how health care needs to be fixed immediately as costs are spiraling out of control. The New Yorker just had a good [...]
May 31, 2009
Big, Interesting, Mysterious Pragmatic Problems
I’ve just finished a master’s program full of amazing classmates seeking policy solutions to some of the toughest problems the US and international institutions have to currently deal with. For my part, I deeply love to spend a lot of my recreational thinking time searching for gaps in solutions to problems — entrepreneurial thinking — [...]
April 6, 2009
Going International to Become More American
In mid-May, I will graduate with a Masters of Science in Foreign Service degree from Georgetown University. This program is within the School of Foreign Service, formed after World War I to train Americans to engage with the rest of the world both in business and in diplomacy. Today, about a third of our class [...]
March 20, 2009
Ticket Re-Sellers and Scalpers
Trent Reznor wrote a post on his Nine Inch Nails (NIN) forum about re-sellers and scalpers of concert tickets. In it, he discusses the motivations for TicketMaster to encourage the secondary market for tickets, which leads to scalpers poaching tickets and re-selling to customers at huge mark-ups and at huge inconvenience to them.
As I’m sure [...]
February 26, 2009
Future of Web Apps, Miami, 2009
Back last semester, I decided to pony up the resources to travel to Miami to attend the Future of Web Apps conference run by Ryan Carson’s Carsonified. The ticket cost $200 for just the conference day (the workshop day was on the prior day but cost quite a bit). It ended up that I had [...]
