More Global Warming Zealots
Building on Dyson’s Heretics article, here is a piece about the various players who hate global warming skeptics (read NOT deniers). http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/15/opinion/edjacoby.php?page=1
Building on Dyson’s Heretics article, here is a piece about the various players who hate global warming skeptics (read NOT deniers). http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/15/opinion/edjacoby.php?page=1
Here is an interesting article on Graham and Dodd's (Warren Buffet Mentor)P/E ratio philosophy. They argue the ratio should be taken over a longerperiod than the current 12 months. This fits well with Nicholas Taleeb'sphilosophy of being fooled by randomness. Long Term Long Term Long Term. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/14/business/view.php?page=1
More action on the open source front. I was watching the movie layer cake and one key line I retained was, “Being good at business is being a good middleman”. That is exactly what the open-source gurus have done. Wikipedia’s Walsh, eBay’s Skoll, Linux’s Torvald, Craigslist’s Craig, Facebook’s Zuckerberg… Its all about providing tools for [...]
Excellent article here on the potential pitfalls of the current global warming modeling. I am not arguing that global warming is not occurring or that we cannot prevent it, we must simply remember that we still do not know all the variables in the equation. Canadian scientist David Suzuki was recently being interviewed on the [...]
Pooling ideas from multiple disciplines and creating a coherent picture is at the heart of genuine progress. The greatest contributers are often people working outside their apparent expertise – Einstein, Ghandi, MLK, Yunnus, Picasso, and all the ones who never made it through school, Hughes, Gates, Jobs…. Hence the renaming of my blog to “The [...]