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A lot of econ books are really just political screeds dressed up as social science. You have to watch out for that. But to answer your question, the best by far is Bowles's "Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions, and Evolution." Here's an excellent summary:

http://stevereads.com/weblog/2007/05/21/nearly-done-bowless-...

And here's an tiny excerpt:

Like the overnight train that left me in an empty field some distance from the settlement, the process of economic development has for the most part bypassed the two hundred or so families that make up the village of Palanpur. They have remained poor, even by Indian standards: less than a third of the adults are literate, and most have endured the loss of a child to malnutrition or to illnesses that are long forgotten in other parts of the world. But for the occasional wristwatch, bicycle, or irrigation pump, Palanpur appears to be a timeless backwater, untouched by India’s cutting edge software industry and booming agricultural regions.

Seeking to understand why, I approached a sharecropper and his three daughters weeding a small plot. The conversation eventually turned to the fact that Palanpur farmers sow their winter crops several weeks after the date at which yields would be maximized. The farmers do not doubt that earlier planting would give them larger harvests, but no one the farmer explained, is willing to be the first to plant, as the seeds on any lone plot would be quickly eaten by birds. I asked if a large group of farmers, perhaps relatives, had ever agreed to sow earlier, all planting on the same day to minimize losses. “If we knew how to do that,” he said, looking up from his hoe at me, “we would not be poor.”
> Almost everyone says the same thing, "Oh no. I'm an introvert. This is exhausting to me. I can't wait to get back to my room. But I can keep it up for a couple necessary hours."

That's it right there - introverts are people who recover energy by being alone or in smaller, more intimate, less crazy groups. Extroverts recover energy being with other people.

There's a difference between being introverted and reclusive - there's plenty of ways to connect with people that'll recharge as an introvert. When I lived in Boston, I talked to the owner of Samurai Restaurant and she let me set up a little place in the back and play Go with a friend for a few hours so long as we ordered a bit, or have small meetings there. It was cool, minimal, private area with lots of space, kind of hidden and half-underground, and we had a lovely time drinking tea and playing Go or talking philosophy or whatever.

If you're introverted, you've got to think a little on how to socialize and be recharged from it, but you definitely can find something that's suitable for you and run with it. In fact, it's almost required to stay mentally healthy. Introversion is good and fine, reclusiveness usually has bad side effects.
Of course, he "claims" that, but it sure reads like a rant from a guy who got snubbed when he wanted to be buddy-buddy with potential sources of information.

I think this is really all about Mike ego not being stroked enough.

And no, I don't think it is outlandish to posit that Mike made the whole set of allegations up.
I don't know, but that would be a good question to pose on Quora, where David seems to frequent.
Fix your link.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2010/09/fbi_rep...
"Anything not forbidden is compulsory" only if you assume an infinitely long time horizon

Without having more data points, it is hard to say whether the average life span of a planet in the Universe is long enough for multicellular life to inevitably develop.

So far, all evidence points to no. It is also true, however, that so far we have negligible data.
Thank goodness the monospace font is sans-serif.
Keep in mind it's meant for low-resolution devices, where the serifs of Courier would feel lost.
Coders from Florida:

LessEverything.com - created everybodyhatesquickbooks.com to gain a few users for their account app lessaccounting.

HashRocket - cofounder wrote a book on ruby & now runs a kickass consultancy.

IMO, you should market in every way you can possibly afford; adsense, pulse360, adblade, ysm, ad center, ad networks, retargeting, viral websites, viral videos, email follow ups, affiliate marketing, coreg (think appsumo) & traditional PR. Take every avenue you cam afford & pump it for paying / profitable users.

PS: Good post Mark!
A lot more goes into a font than random shapes put together.
That information is incorrect. There is as of today no crebible information proving that the FBI is on the story. Those articles you are referring to are either misquotes or arranged to be more sensionalistic.
I read something on msnbc a couple days ago but can't find the link. Here are some from more mainstream sources than TechCrunch, though:

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/09/24/the-daily-sta...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/maggieshiels/2010/09...

http://www.businessinsider.com/angelgate-is-overblown-2010-9
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I think it's far more likely that, already, the only ones with regrets will be the ones involved.
I love how government, the most anti-competitive entity there is, will be investigating anti-competitive behavior. Physician, heal thyself.
I have always been interested in owning a bar as well. Almost did if it wasn't for getting a much better job to come along. Where you thinking about, interested in an investor, what are you actually going to do with this information?
The internet used to run over the phone lines, too. It's a protocol.
We may have a genome that is only two percent different from that of a primate, but the result is nothing short of a singularity. Chimpanzees may be amazingly advanced mammals, with complex social systems and the ability to use sticks as limited tools, but... Our two percentage points gave us Shakespeare, the Italian Renaissance, jazz, the wheel, skyscrapers, the Apollo Program, agriculture, global telecommunications networks, gunpowder, the Cold War...

Even an alien civilization that may seem like gods to us won't confuse us with our genomic neighbors.
That's a 60MB difference in a 3GB text file. The message could be wildly different...
After careful reading of Sacca, Conway, and Arrington, I've come to the conclusion that they might all be correct in their representation.

We know there were at least two meetings of the "Super Angels" - It's possible (likely) that the first meeting that Sacca attend was an aboveboard engagement in which all of the positive conversations that took place were as Sacca described it. Indeed, I read Sacca's email as a shout-out to Conway saying "Hey - the meeting I attended, was above board - don't paint me with the second meeting brush"

It sounds like in the second meeting, the conversation departed from "How do we help entrepreneurs" and started sliding into "How do we increase value for angels". Maybe not full out (actionable) collusion in which any agreements were made (and the concept of agreement is pretty important in collusion) - but skirting dangerously close.

David Lee was at that second meeting (and, for all we know, was one of Arrington's sources - He had Three), likely gave conway the briefing, and conway, being savvy, realized he needed to immediately separate himself, particularly as all this email floating around is discoverable.

Nobody should, for a second, think that Ron Conway is writing email with the belief that it won't be seen in the public light.

Talking as a group about things like holding down valuations, dealing with YC leverage, and the impact of convertible notes on the Angel's cut of deals is all pretty dangerous territory. Sacca wasn't at the second meeting, so his email has to be taken in that context.

All in all I think Arrington has done a great service with some excellent blogging, not only to the startup/entrepreneur scene, but also, ironically, to the Super Angels themselves. By surfacing these conversations early on, I'm of the belief that he may have actually given them a wakeup call before they started doing (illegal?) things like agreeing as a group not to accept convertible notes.

This is hard hitting reporting that harkens back to a day of serious reporting - ironically done not by a "mainstream" news outlet like the WSJ, or NYT - but by a "mere" blogger.

kudos.
I vote for not crap - I enjoyed reading this.
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Wolbachia has a remarkable relationship, with some species dependent upon it for fertility. I'd say that endosymbiosis has occurred independently a few times.
It would help the legitimate apps justify their case for requiring insane-looking permissions.
FidoNet is the counterexample that shows the government was not required to implement a global, decentralized, fault tolerant network.

Before that, the phone system was a national, decentralized, fault tolerant network built without benefit of government funding, research, or protocols.
This wouldn't be in the market description, but rather on the permissions screen. Maybe something like 50 characters per permission.
They just fired you, that is when your loyalty for the company really kicks in to high gear... wait nevermind.
Perhaps just "Ask me later" when installing, then a single prompt the first time the app uses a particular permission?
I was an insane introvert until I met my (later to be) wife. She pushed me into many different social events and clubs that even though I was around people like me, I just wanted to have fun and wound up being quite social. At my first job it was hard to gather a group for lunch, I tried every day though, second job was not hard but nobody with common interests. Third job nobody ate together so I made sure to always invite people to lunch until it became the culture (nobody gives me credit but I don't care). Being around people all the time helps a lot. Also helps if you have witty people to make fun of you and force you to develop wit.

In the end, social skills are like math, they are not spectator sports.

I am still an introvert, but I tend to be social, and enjoy being around other people. Often I like to be left alone, but now it is by choice. The line REALLY blurred within the last 3-5 years or so. The main point to take away is: Is being an introvert making you unhappy? Change it. Otherwise be what you are and be proud of it.
This is how I am. The way I see it, knowledge will always exist somewhere in your multidimensional conceptual space, so as long as you keep adding more with some degree of diversity, it will eventually start to form clouds, clusters, and networks. My sense is that the problem will tend to solve itself over time.
I came to this late, and I see most of the replies are focussing on the issues of introversion v. social skills. I just want to highlight these two lines:

My social skills are going down exponentially day by day. I tend to be communicative with people who share similar interests

At the risk of reading too much in these two lines: it is not unusual, as one gets older, to narrow down your acquaintances to those who (gasp) actually share the same interests as you. Many people find that their social needs are met perfectly well by people they have a lot in common with, and that life is too short to maintain relationships that are not genuinely rewarding.

So this is not a problem per se, provided that you personally are not unhappy about the state of affairs. The only issue with the catalogue of interests given (physics, hacking, heavy metal) is that if you prefer females as your romantic partners, you are making things a bit difficult for yourself, statistically speaking.
That's a bit of a shame, really. I loved those courses. And they can be very practical. You'd be surprised how many game programmers I've known who don't have the understanding of basic mechanics and the spatial intuition imparted by a couple of introductory statics and dynamics classes.

Intro to materials science was especially cool. I knew next to nothing about materials before taking that class, and it opened up an entirely new world to me. My only regret is that the program only allowed me to take one course in materials.
Generally you have to hold a bachelors degree or higher and be considered an industry expert in a field. That can be relatively subjective in business fields. For example a field like Medical is simple, you have to have an MD and have practiced or done research in the specific subject matter of the case. For technology it is not so cut and dry.

For me personally being a CTO at three companies serves as my main qualifying credentials, even though the cases I take are deeply technical cases, cases you standard "I have never wrote code CTO's" would be over there head in. I have sold three travel related technology companies to some of the big players in that space which furthers my creditably in high volume online transaction systems, then there is obviously the specialist focus in travel technology. I have been a speaker at several conferences including IBM's Impact on the future of enterprise web and mobile technologies as well as rich internet applications.

Those are the markets I tend to stick to and it is easy to prove my credentials in those segments. While my list of credentials may look impressive it is by no means the bar that you would have to meet to be considered an expert. Competency, some business sense and networking is all that one really needs to get into the market.

After a few cases you are established as an expert witness and those become your credentials. As with anything else start small, take the cases the big fish are passing up because they only need an expert opinion of facts paper written or some other "lesser work" done. Those papers while not the same a expert testimony (many cases don't require expert testimony, just paperwork), do serve as creditably that you understand the legal process and understand your role. Obviously case wins are important to your reputation but not as much as they are to the lawyers.

I kind of fell into it, one of my companies was sued by Hotels.com, as well there was a lot of pressure being put on various governmental agencies to investigate our company for anti-trust violations. I served as expert witness in defense of my company. We settled out of court with Hotels.com which included the sale of the company to Hotels.com (it's how they negotiate) before the case drew to a conclusion. Anyway, a while later I received a call out of the blue from a legal group that was representing a client in a similar situation and was asked if I would serve as an expert witness, from there it just snowballed.

It is a pretty easy market to get into. Cold call, buy some lawyers lunch, give them a packet with your info and the types of expert information you can provide and ask them to network you in their network. Pay a commission if they hook you up with another firm.

Finally if you a serious about getting into the field of expert witness they you should get the book "A-Z Guide to Expert Witnessing" it is an expensive text but it is well worth the money. It has every piece of information that you will ever need to become a successful expert witness.
thanks. she is a prodigy. best to learn from the best.
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Great imagery. Thanks for sharing the link.
Can't they put a cat5 down there, and like a mini router? Or run an antenna down?
I understood what he meant, I just didn't understand why DNA was helpful in illustrating it. I'm a lot smarter than a nematode, or a pebble, or a cell in Conway's Game of Life. The number of base pairs I share with any of those things (where applicable) is irrelevant.
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Interesting read, but he lost me when he said astronomy was useless, a few paragraphs after he talked about how professors would feel immensely insulted if anyone called their subject boring or useless.
The FBI has a tough problem on their hands. Probably even an impossible one.

They seem to be trying to strike a good balance here, but especially the encryption part is likely to rile people up. And in some cases it's totally impossible.

I actually feel kinda bad for them.
Notice the context:

I tried and found that there is virtually no negotiating with requirements, even if some are or seem silly. For example, Clark required that students take “science perspective.” In studying my schedule and options, I figured that astronomy was the easiest way out. Considering how useless astronomy looked, I decided to petition the Dean of Students to be excused from it so I could take better classes, arguing that I’d taken real science classes in high school and that I could be more productively engaged elsewhere. The answer came quickly: “no.”

Considering how useless astronomy looked in the context of taking it merely to fulfill a requirement of limited utility, I didn't especially want to take it, but I took it, fulfilled the requirement, and continued.

Astronomy is a lovely subject, like many subjects, but it's not one that I desperately wanted to learn about then, and the class was mostly a waste.
I don't get it. These mails from Ron Conway and Chris Sacca sounds like founders are babies in their diapers who won't even find the way to the toilet without their angel's "coaching" them. They are taking the "angel" thing too seriously.

And why does these mails have to sound like charity or some great cause? These angles aren't donating to charity - it would be good if it doesn't sound like that. This "how much we do for founders" is overdone. From where I see, the introductions and exposure that comes along with the Angels can help you get, well more introduction and exposure and may be, funding which you already have.

How does a company's success depend on these charitable deeds? It won't result in more paying customers or buyout. I don't like the tone of the mails where it makes it sound like founder are a bunch of ignorant chumps and they owe it to these Angles for the hard work and guidance. First, doesn't matter who the investor is, if founders and team aren't competent, the company would succumb. Second, the work angels are doing aren't for the founders - it's towards ROI.
I always think the best speakers are those who use clear, concise, and easily understood language. There is no sense in trying to confuse your audience or show off how obscure your vocabulary is. That is why I always preferred Hemingway or Steinbeck to Fitzgerald or Joyce.
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Your statement that all T.A.s do care a little about teaching is false.

From the essay:

To be sure, there are exceptions: some professors will be hostile or uninterested regardless of how much effort a student shows, and some will be martyrs who try to reach even the most distant, disgruntled student. But most professors are in the middle, looking for students who are engaged and focusing on those students.
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Riiiight, if only AltaVista had done a redesign... sure.
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Perhaps the only interesting point. The rest seemed rather commonsense.
Asking whether you're "OK" or not is a useless question.

A useful question to ask would be whether it's worth running experiments on yourself to see if you can affect your introversion. For example, if you always start a conversation with a stranger at lunch on Tuesdays and Fridays, do you become more comfortable with this as time goes by?

Another useful question to ask is whether it's worth reading about introversion in order to gain insight in to what it is and how to deal with it. Your starting this thread was an implicit "yes" answer to this question.

But it's totally useless to ask whether you're somehow "OK" or not as a result of being introverted. Thinking that you're not "OK" is an evolved adaptation for hunkering down because you're afraid you might get kicked out of the tribe and therefore be unable to survive/reproduce. This isn't something you need to worry about in the modern era. In other words, due to the marvel of modern technology and societal structure, you are always "OK".

http://xkcd.com/391/
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Leaving a company is like divorcing your wife. Remaining on friendly terms is infinitely preferable to burning down the house and telling the kids that she's going to wind up with herpes.
I don't really care if it's illegal. But inaccurate? That's not good.
This reminds me of Quora.
It sounds like Bob overloaded his schedule. Or, more likely, he's been partying all night and placed his priorities elsewhere. Most students tend to procrastinate to the last second then whine that they "didn't have time" to get the assignment done, muchless the reading. And that is the sad truth.

Anyhow, points are a game that even the best students get sucked into playing. We are not passionate about every subject, obviously. So, play the points game for subjects you don't care about, then really try and learn for the subjects you do care about. It will only help your grade, and you might find some friends and supporters along the way too.
What's so fucked up is that there's no intellectual property protection for typefaces

Isn't that the way it should be in general? Nobody is allowed to copy specifically your program or font but they can copy the idea, invest in the effort, and come up with a similar one, often worse but sometimes better, themselves.

With the following paragraphs of your post I agree fully. As soon as something becomes so ubiquitous as Helvetica, it should fall in public domain. (Or someone should pay for it and give it to everyone else.) Helvetica is so beautiful, timeless, that it would deserve to be free.