Meaning May End in Madness

Good blogs are rarely drippy diaries nor are they dry op-eds, having more personality than the latter without the self-indulgence of the former. When I started this blog, I thought it would be more diary-like than it’s turned out to be,  but like those of many mice, my best laid scheme gang agley. Though I’m [...]

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Pause

If I’m not mistaken, this has been the longest unplanned break in TRZ posts since blogstart–it has not been for want of material. Here were some the topics I considered and dropped at various stages of development.

A primer on monetary policy as it relates to my finding $1500 in various forms of cash in my [...]

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Walker, Texas Banker

Today Felix Salmon highlighted some Chuck Norris facts pertaining to his experience in banking:
# Little-known Chuck Norris Fact: Chuck Norris does not mark to market. The market marks to Chuck.
# More: Chuck Norris does not go bankrupt. Chuck Norris ruptures banks.
# Source of hedge fund survivorship bias?: Funds that pay Chuck Norris 2 and 20 [...]

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Even More Praise of the Internets

Two members of the GMU mafia who have done much to shape my worldview in the past few years, Robin Hanson and Tyler Cowen, did a Bloggingheads “diavlog” together (quite the portmanteau, diavlog, no?). Here’s a taste of the topics:
Tyler vs. Robin on the merits of cryonics (12:23)
Does fiction weaken your grasp [...]

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Blognitive Dissonance

Wired tells me I’m a late adopter:
Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug.
Writing a weblog today isn’t the bright idea it was four years ago. The blogosphere, once a freshwater oasis of folksy self-expression and clever thought, has been flooded by a [...]

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