My easy like Sunday morning reads:
• Cullen Roche: Financial Journalism Operating Guidelines (PragCap)
• Americans Are Getting Big Raises. You Just Need to Do a Little Math to See Them. (Slate)
• Fiat’s Endless Dating Game (Bloomberg View)
• The Internet of Tweets (Medium)
• 36 Life Lessons I Learned Before the Age of 30: The President of Y Combinator reflects on long days and short decades (Observer)
• Infrastructure Porn (Imgur)
• You Might Never Love Exercise (But Do it Anyway) (Lifehacker)
• California is literally sinking into the ground and it’s going to cost taxpayers big time. (Mother Jones) see also California’s ‘relentless’ drought has taken a dire turn (Business Insider)
• What Would It Be Like to Actually Visit Jurassic World? (Bloomberg)
• More Bad News For Rush Limbaugh: Once-Dominant Talker Struggles To Maintain His Major-Market Base (Media Matters)
What are you reading?
Banking On an Upturn
Source: WSJ
The kinds of images and ideas we use do affect thinking and decision-making. In fact, creating them is now an occupation. I’m sure no ideological economic applications of these insights are evident in our politics or media. http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/how-to-design-a-metaphor/
Climate change with our old friend Henry Paulson taking the stage.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/06/12/the_weather_channel_s_new_video_series_on_climate_change_features_25_stark.html
What is the definition of pornagraphy?
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-oculus-no-sex-violence-limits-unclear-2015-6
Facebook knows. And you’ll just have to live with it.
Re: You Might Never Love Exercise (But Do it Anyway) (Lifehacker)
If you fail to embrace 100% what you do, whether it be a job, a task or an exercise routine, you will struggle to stay focused. For exercise, you will probably not make the gains you are ultimately capable of. Mindfulness is the key to success. I think the average reluctant exerciser will find this article more helpful.
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To Jump-Start Your Exercise Routine, Be Mindful
By Gretchen Reynolds February 18, 2015
By now, many of us, beset by bad weather and declining motivation, are struggling to maintain our New Year’s exercise resolutions. But a timely new study offers encouragement, suggesting that by paying more attention to the experience of exercise itself, even the most reluctant of exercisers might begin to find pleasure in movement.
Scientists, like the rest of us, have long wondered why some people stick with exercise and others do not. The possible explanations involve everything from genetics and personality to practicalities like work schedules and access to showers. But in multiple studies of exercise behavior, one of the most reliable indicators of whether people will continue to exercise is that they find exercise satisfying. They gain enjoyment from being active.
The problem with that finding is that it does not explain what makes exercise satisfying and so is not very helpful on a practical level.
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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/18/how-mindfulness-can-jumpstart-our-exercise-routines/
I can’t wait until this Snowden traitor is safely in a US prison
http://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-russia-china-and-nsa-files-2015-6
I maybe wrong as I only scanned it; the infrastructure porn was telling looking at the advances everyone else in the world is using.
Re: California drought
It appears wealthy Californians do not have any concept of how artificial and man-made their life-style is. They live in a place because it is always warm, sunny, almost never rains, and is close to the ocean but don’t realize that is the definition of a desert that has no fresh water. I can barely wait until the first billionaire starts ordering truckloads of Perrier to water their lawn with or builds his own desalination plant.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rich-californians-youll-have-to-pry-the-hoses-from-our-cold-dead-hands/2015/06/13/fac6f998-0e39-11e5-9726-49d6fa26a8c6_story.html?hpid=z4
Re: Americans getting raises.
This piece assumes that there aren’t significant changes to benefits. I have observed that companies are shifting much more of the cost for retirement and health benefits to workers. So you can get a pay raise but still end up with less money.
I’m one of Rush’s former listeners. The business radio channel here picked him in the late 1980s, and I listened from the beginning. In those early days, he was an upbeat type, lampooning the opposition, and was willing to engage in friendly debate with liberals. But sometime in the late 1990s, he turned angry and bitter, and began moralizing. That was when I turned him off (as well as all political talk). I’ve overheard his show from time to time, and if anything, he’s even worse. I don’t understand how anyone can listen anymore.