Let us fully outsource this one to twitter! Discuss: Wearables and the quantified self will turn real life into one giant MMORPG. — Christopher Mims (@mims) September 7, 2014 Given my Garmin watch which syncs to Strava and Runtastic, and my Fitbit pedometer that sits on the other arm – and the fact that I […]
Recently on twitter I decided to write a bunch of acronyms. In my defence I noted: @robhosking @TheNationTV3 @Tim_Watkin I just made what you said into acronyms – as that is 35% of what economists do. — TVHE (@TVHE) September 5, 2014 Now a couple of points were left unsaid here. What is the other […]
I have just accidentally purchased 6 books on methodology, mostly economics but one from sociology and one general philosophy of science book. As I’m supposed to be estimating a whole lot of things at the moment, this combined with these new books may leave me a little quiet … Hopefully I can get up from […]
There were a bunch of excellent comments on yesterday’s food post. I thought I could answer them by adding a bit of clarity here.
After reading both the Stuff article and the initial article on Gareth Morgan’s blog and the follow up, I am convinced both Gareth and Geoff Simmons (GG) have inadvertently become extreme social constructivists – but may not realise it yet. Now I hate it when people just whip out rhetoric like “social constructivist” and don’t explain […]
Let’s discuss this comic by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal – as it is particularly good. Just to kick you off, I’d say it definitely relates to both of these posts.