Apple's Best Product Ever

Cnet's Steve Guttenberg asks, "What is Apple's best product ever?", and nominates the iPod Classic:

[The iPod Classic is] "perfect" in the sense it can't really be improved. The Classic does exactly what it was originally designed to do: offer great sound in a small, easy-to-use design at an affordable price.

My vote? The 3rd generation iPod. It exemplified a near-perfect combination of usability, corporate philosophy, and futurism. Join me--won't you?--for a little Saturday reminiscing?

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Liberal Priorities; Or, Confounding the Coketownian Mind

When I read the news each morning, it's as though I've fallen through the looking glass: The issues that preoccupy our media and our current Administration are at first confounding for what they address, then infuriating for what they ignore.

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Google's $50 million Face-Saving Machine

A few weeks back, Google disclosed figures on its workforce diversity and showed its tech workforce was 83% male. Today, Google committed $50 million to its Made with Code initiative to get women interested in coding.

I don't recall indulgences ever being quite so expensive.

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On That IRS Scandal...

The IRS scandal should concern progressives and much as conservatives.

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I've got a name for your football team

I'll keep it brief: After 82 years, the Washington Redskins are just now facing pressure to change their name. I'll be right back.

Uber, AirBnB, & the Democracy of Opportunity

One of my favorite economic policy quotes is by G.K. Chesterton (of course!). He said: "Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few."

New technologies may potentially turn everyone into capitalists--so long as the too-few-capitalists don't prevent it. I'll be right back.

Drunk dialogues

Me: I'm about to finish my first bottle of wine by myself.
Friend: Finally you're all grown up! Drinking alone like a man.
Me: Exactly. I need to start writing letters to people who have wronged me.
Friend: I think it's the other way around. You write letters to people you have wronged.
Me: Oh.

Hello, friends!

Presenting! my inaugural post. I will start this blog the way many good things start: with Argentine Malbec in my glass and good music on the sound system. (It's Daft Punk and Royksopp if you're interested.)