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Boehner, a true artist of hypocrisy. With No New Plan, Boehner Makes Angry Plea on Shutdown.

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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/10/05/us/politics/with-no-new-plan-boehner-makes-angry-plea-on-shutdown.html?from=homepage “This isn’t some damned game,” Boehner says about the government shutdown. Yet your party is the one that chose to play with Americans’ livelihood in a cynical attempt to undo a passed law that will further degrade your party as poor voters of all political persuasions find they like being able to afford a … Read more

Gateway criticism: You’re not perfect

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From an interesting blog post about prisoners of war being brainswashed in China, we get a glimpse into the techniques of persuasion. The assumption under which the mind-warping by the Chinese proved effective was this: “After we’ve committed to something, even trivially, we start to support it. We have a need to think of ourselves … Read more

Smartest thing Jeff Bezos ever said

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Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com’s CEO, provides a question to ask yourself when trying to succeed at life, business or anything: “What’s not going to change?” Focus on addressing what’s not going to change, and you just might make something unique, transformative and lasting. Found via this Motely Fool post: The 20 Smartest Things Jeff Bezos Has … Read more

The Internet: your new cable TV service

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Judges Hear Arguments on Rules for Internet Currently, companies that offer goods or services online do not have to pay anything to get their content to consumers. If Internet service providers started charging fees to reach customers more quickly, large, wealthy companies like Google and Facebook would have an edge, the F.C.C. says. The government … Read more

Work is not school. Montessori management.

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Schumpeter: Montessori management | The Economist. For example, Morten Hansen of the University of California, Berkeley studied 182 teams who were trying to win a contract on behalf of a professional-services firm. He found that the more time they spent consulting others, the less likely they were to win a deal. This shows, he says, … Read more