* “Why aren’t men responding to economic signals?” (Note: the content is not what you expect from the title.)
* “Most contemporary literary fiction is terrible.” I would ask: according to what standard, as measured by who? Remember too that the terrible literary fiction of the past has probably been forgotten.
* “A Childless Bystander’s Baffled Hymn;” sample: “Why all the choices — ‘What would you like to wear?’— and all the negotiating and the painstakingly calibrated diplomacy? They’re toddlers, not Pakistan.”
* Doing a PhD is often a waste of time, which is depressingly obvious to me.
* A Reddit discussion aptly analogizing economics to computer science.
* Hugh Howey: Self-publishing is the future and great for writers.
* Austin gets Google Fiber, becomes a more attractive place to live.
* “Expensive woman seeks retarded millionaire.”
* Flaunt it while you got it? Farrah Abrahams and a theory of sex tapes. Maybe.
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