February 2012
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slybadger replied to your photoset: I’ve made a huge mistake.
I want to touch your face.
hahahaha! I’ve got such a smooth baby face. Let me touch your hair and we have a date :)
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Amusing (but Informative) Day at Uni
We had a three hour workshop entitled “Knowing Yourself & Others”. It was comprised of working with the DISC model. Everyone in the class got to choose which dimension they felt best represented their qualities and behaviours.
Red (Dominance); Decisive, independent, results driven, goal orientated, competitive, high self esteem. Authoritative, narrow minded, easily frustrated,...
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“Society is concerted action, cooperation. Society is the outcome of conscious...”
– Ludwig von Mises - “Human Action”, Chapter VIII
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How Liberals Distort Austrian Economics →
The earliest Austrian economists did not make their mark by advocating free markets and other classical-liberal ideas. They did so by proffering a revolutionary positive (not normative) theoretical approach to understanding how markets work, focusing on value, price, and capital, theory. What Wikipedia says is consistent with my understanding of the matter: “When Carl Menger, Eugen von...
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“By what right does the law force me to conform to the social plans of Mr....”
– Frédéric Bastiat - “The Law”
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My Uni Homework for Monday
Well, I have lots, but one particular part is to pick a scene from a film that, to us, exhibits the pinnacle of acting, and present our case to the class. My lecturer made a point to “not disregard foreign, or black and white films”. He doesn’t know me at all. What, does he think I’m someone that’s not going to watch the completely filmography of Ingmar Bergman?!
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“Politicians love to declare that the “people have chosen for themselves at the...”
– Harry Browne, How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World.
January 2012
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No Free-Marketeer Thinks That Money Is the Sole... →
Lefties often say – and seem genuinely to believe - that free-marketeers are obsessed with economic data to the exclusion of all else. But I have yet to meet a conservative who thinks that you get more happiness from a bank account than from, say, listening to Beethoven, or walking in the English countryside, or watching your child take his first steps. The argument isn’t about what...
“If the government told you tomorrow that it was going to choose for you where to...”
– Everyday Anarchy, Stefan Molyneux.
Create Value, Not Jobs →
[O]ur goal should never be to “create jobs”. Our goal should be to enable people to contribute something valued by other people. The value is the point, not the work. If someone finds a way to provide value to hundreds of millions of people and it requires no more effort from them than batting their eyelashes, that would be a win. …
If you think the problem is a lack of jobs, all sorts of...
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Success!
Chris loved Annie Hall so much that he wanted to watch Manhatten straight away! Sadly he fell asleep less than half way through. We’ll try this again sometime soon.
I also consider this homework for uni because in the classic “la-di-da” scene of Annie Hall, that performance is a perfect example of self-interruption, which is exactly what I’m doing in class tomorrow!
Gosh,...
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“But we are the sum of all the moments of our lives—all that is ours is in...”
– Thomas Wolfe - Look Homeward, Angel
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