http://www.picobusiness.com/blog In the future, everyone will be CEO for 15 minutes Tue, 13 May 2008 16:32:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en China quake caused by colliding land masses. This is a little bit like saying: Lava is made of molten rock Water is made of Hydrogen and Oxygen Space lacks breathable air. http://www.picobusiness.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/13/from-the-department-of/ I finally got around to listening to this podcast on jobs and captalism and poor people. The basic concepts that Russ discusses: Does Capitalism require poor people to do the menial work? Do rich countries require poor ones to exploit in order to do the manual labor work? Is Capitalism "rigged" to ensure that ... http://www.picobusiness.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/13/russ-roberts-on-jobs/ What?? How is that possible? I hear you ask. Honestly, I struggled with this for several months now. I knew that according to Friedman, "Inflation is a monentary phenomenon" (which means it's caused by the government's management of the money supply). But this didn't square with ... http://www.picobusiness.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/17/skyrocketing-oil-prices-are-not-causing-inflation/ http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/04/prevention-cost.html The claim: Because prevention techniques have to be widespread to be effective, the cost of making them widespread dwarfs the benefit of reduction in the disease. In other words an ounce of prevention costs more than a pound of cure. http://www.picobusiness.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/09/death-knell-for-hmos/ Political Observations The vast majority of pundits, when faced with a crisis, will claim that the crisis would have been averted if only we had done what they told us to do. Alternatively, they will say that the crisis happened because of the actions/policies of their rivals. Hah hah! They ... http://www.picobusiness.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/09/random-observations-april-2008/ OpenCongress has come out with a new version which allows you to network, discuss, evaluate, and vote on what's happening in Congress. You can track specific bills, Senators, Representatives, or issues and they've even put together a page on how to make the most of it: http://www.opencongress.org/profile/howtouseread more | ... http://www.picobusiness.com/blog/index.php/2008/01/14/my-opencongress-network-comment-and-vote-on-congress/ Yet another awesome tool from the Sunlight Foundation. But then, I'm biased :) http://punchclockmap.sunlightprojects.org/ read more | digg story http://www.picobusiness.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/11/mapping-congress-member-meetings/ Here's your chance to learn about the candidates for the different congressional seats (Senators and Reps) in the 2008 election cycle.read more | digg story http://www.picobusiness.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/10/congressional-candidate-wiki/ Glenn Reynolds (of whom I am an avid reader) asks, with regard to the use of ethanol as a fuel "WILL ETHANOL LEAD TO FOOD SHORTAGES"? I was originally going to say "Of course not." But then, I realized the one scenario where it would happen, and that is if ... http://www.picobusiness.com/blog/index.php/2007/06/11/question-of-the-week/ I've been focusing most of my blogging attention on Indefinite Articles, but this seemed like a much more business-focused article: Jeffrey Pfeffer on Pay for Performance I'm generally a believer in PfP, so this was an eye-opener.  Very thought provoking. http://www.picobusiness.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/12/testing-testing-is-this-thing-on/