We only have two official punctuation marks that express nuance, the exclamation point for emphasis and the question mark for questions. This makes writing flat and inexpressive and has spawned the use of emoticons 😉 Writing limits our ability to…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Paul Krugman Needs Sarcasm Marks
Paul Krugman regularly uses sarcasm in his blog posts that falls a bit flat because he doesn’t use sarcasm punctuation. He is a good enough writer that he doesn’t use sarcasm (or dramatically modifies his wording) in his columns, but…
Posted in Personal (not econ)
The Emasculization Of The American Workforce
A Brookings Institution paper by Michael Greenstone and Adam Looney has a particularly salient introductory quote about male workers. Not only did the median income stagnate after the 1970s, but median male income plummeted. A lot of great things happened…
Norman Borlaug, Millionaire Superhero
Norman Borlaug is the first person that I thought of as a millionaire superhero because when he died in 2009, his obituaries usually credited him with saving millions of lives or even a billion lives. He and his teams of…
Posted in Development, Millionaire Superheroes
Medianism 