ח׳ באדר ה׳תש״ע (Monday 22 February 2010)

More Stupid Boss Tricks

ח׳ באדר ה׳תש״ע (Monday 22 February 2010)

In January, I went on vacation for a couple weeks. I had only been with my current company for five and a half months, and two of those were as a part time employee, so I didn’t have enough vacation days accrued to take the whole vacation. The company let me go anyway, and I [...]

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Deflation

ז׳ באדר ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 21 February 2010)

Recently one of my favorite bloggers, Israeli Water Engineer, wrote about fears of deflation in the United States: “This is bad. The only solution to world indebtness is controlled inflation….” I commented that deflation is a pretty good thing; he replied and I replied back (go read it). Though this discussion is about deflation, I [...]

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Effects of Divorce on Children

ו׳ באדר ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 20 February 2010)

The way to measure the effects of divorce on children is to compare children of divorced parents with children of parents who are still married. Right? In a New York Times op/ed, Ruth Bettelheim says that there isn’t a difference: Studies conducted in the past 20 years have shown that on all meaningful measures of [...]

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Brochures

ד׳ באדר ה׳תש״ע (Thursday 18 February 2010)

Did you know that some businesses are still creating and distributing brochures? No, seriously. Why would I want your brochure? A brochure is just a printed version of a website on dead trees, but with less content and way out of date.

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Game in The Weekly Standard

ל׳ בשבט ה׳תש״ע (Sunday 14 February 2010)

It seems that I’ve read about a hundred people’s comments in the past week about the Weekly Standard article about dating that dealt at some length with game. I thought the comments were pretty good, so I’ve got very little reason to elaborate, but there are a few points I wish could have been addressed [...]

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Older girls

כ״ט בשבט ה׳תש״ע (Saturday 13 February 2010)

Why I dislike being in relationships with older girls: they’re irritable! A girl in her mid 30s has had two decades of negative experiences with other guys who all did and said some stupid shit to her. Every time I do or say something innocently, I’m likely to trigger some memory of someone else and [...]

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