In the future, everyone will be CEO for 15 minutes
A recent study indicates that more and more people are running sole proprietorships.  In this modern age of wonder (which will, of course, seem quaint in 50 years), where every service you can use is on the ‘Net, where you have to meet with your customers face-to-face less and less frequently, and where broadband Internet access is nigh-ubiquitous, any “knowledge worker” can probably find meaningful and valuable self-employment.
Hat tip: Tim O’Reilly
with all the interest and focus on the “online” aspects of the presidential race, I feel safe in predicting that the presidential campaign of 2008 will certainly be an eLection!
Voting is irrational, goes the economic saying. Because the amount of effort involved on your part is so much greater than the infinitesimal input you provide into the process.
It stand to reason, therefore, that the fewer people who vote, the more valuable or meaningful your input is.
Which means that there’s a body of voters N at which it is no longer irrational to vote… with a small enough sample, your vote is very valuable.
By decreasing the number of people who vote, you increase the value of your own vote. It is, therefore, entirely rational to try to convince people that they should not vote, because of the benefit that brings to your own vote.
So, for example, a professor of economics who attempts to convince you that voting is irrational is, indirectly, attempting to increase the value of their own vote!
At the risk of going all schoolgirl… OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!
This is fantastic news, and more than makes up for the cancellation of Firefly and Arrested Development in my overall TV Karma metric.
HBO also has Rome, which is amazing.
Having seen about 6 episodes, I feel very comfortable saying that I really, really like 30 Rock. It’s got some of the great surreality of SNL, but without the need to drag it on for 90 minutes. Tina Fey is also one of my favorite SNL alumni.
Last, but not least, if you’ve ever worked with anyone from GE, I believe you will find Jack Donaghy to be wonderfully, terribly funny. Many people don’t like Alec Baldwin because of his politics. But the Jack character is 180 off on the political angle, and Mr Baldwin manages it with aplomb.