The Golden Treasury of English Verse and a harmonica were my only mementos of civilization. Continue reading →

I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance three times Continue reading →

You can make something out of nothing but the thoughts in your head. Continue reading →

My old reading list… I count five books that are old enough to be in the public domain (and hence free on iBooks). Off to the library with you! I bet this decade (decades start with xxx1 !) has the … Continue reading →

The thing that sucks most about my new iPad is the big pile of unread books by my bedside that I’ll never read now because I have them as free iBooks.

New music, fashion, start-up companies – they come disproportionately from younger people. There is a theory – I first heard it from Paul Graham – that innovation comes from younger people because they haven’t yet learned what they are not … Continue reading →

Looks like me and Greenspan both learned the wrong lessons from previous housing crashes. The former Fed chairman also acknowledged that the central bank failed to grasp the magnitude of the housing bubble but argued, as he has before, that … Continue reading →

This is awesome in so many ways that I don’t know where to begin. When a famous tantric guru boasted on television that he could kill another man using only his mystical powers, most viewers either gasped in awe or … Continue reading →

Bruce Bartlett (advisor on tax issues to Reagan) on liberals. Back when I used to listen to Rush Limbaugh there was one thing in particular he used to say that I agreed with. Over and over he said that liberals … Continue reading →