Check out these articles I’ve written about subsidizing stadiums. Dobelli on Stadiums: What are the Alternatives? It’s Time for Governments to Get Over the Edifice Complex Health Care, Wage Gaps, Walmart, Stadiums And Spending: Notes From Stossel’s ‘Liar, Liar’ WEB EXCLUSIVE: The Stadium Scam Your City Probably Doesn’t Need a Government-Financed Stadium or Convention Center […]
Why Jason’s Deli Is My Default Lunch Place?
You know those days when you really want to eat fairly healthy but you don’t want to stand in a line or (honestly) talk to anyone? Enter Jason’s Deli’s salad bar kiosk. Tap the screen. Swipe. Pick up your tray and plate. Eat. Exchange plate for a clean plate if you want seconds. Or thirds. […]
Jasons Deli Plate
In Defense of Candy Crush
How much time should you spend playing Candy Crush? Or SimCity? Or Tetris? or Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes? If you think these are just time wasters, you’re wrong. In a really interesting TED Talk and similarly interesting interview on Tim Ferriss’s podcast, Jane McGonigal (creator of SuperBetter) has discussed how gaming per se improves brain […]
In Defense of Candy Crush
How much time should you spend playing Candy Crush? Or SimCity? Or Tetris? or Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes? If you think these are just time wasters, you’re wrong. In a really interesting TED Talk and similarly interesting interview on Tim Ferriss’s podcast, Jane McGonigal (creator of SuperBetter) has discussed how gaming per se improves brain […]
In Defense of Candy Crush
How much time should you spend playing Candy Crush? Or SimCity? Or Tetris? or Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes? If you think these are just time wasters, you’re wrong. In a really interesting TED Talk and similarly interesting interview on Tim Ferriss’s podcast, Jane McGonigal (creator of SuperBetter) has discussed how gaming per se improves brain […]
In Defense of Candy Crush
How much time should you spend playing Candy Crush? Or SimCity? Or Tetris? or Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes? If you think these are just time wasters, you’re wrong. In a really interesting TED Talk and similarly interesting interview on Tim Ferriss’s podcast, Jane McGonigal (creator of SuperBetter) has discussed how gaming per se improves brain […]
5 Things I’m Not Going to Do Today
A few days before the beginning of the Fall semester, Jason Womack posted a prompt on Facebook that popped up just as I was about to close it. He asked, “What five things are you NOT going to do today?” Here were my responses: Respond to that thing that just came across my Facebook feed. Someone […]
Arnold Kling, “Three Languages of Politics”
It looks like most political commentators are just talking past one another. Why? Arnold Kling hazards a guess, arguing that people don’t understand one another because they have fundamentally different visions of how the world works. According to Kling, conservatives see the world as a conflict between civilization and barbarism, liberals see it as a […]
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We use Amazon Subscribe and Save for a bunch of different things. It’s nice to know that there’s going to be a shipment of paper towels, coffee, almonds, and other stuff pretty regularly. This reduces the amount of stuff we have to worry about. Here’s what we subscribe to: