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NYC and London might lose money if the bankers moved away, but I'm not sure that would necessarily be a bad thing: it's not great when real people can't afford to live in those cities any more. But you're right, they won't leave in any case. Where would they go which has the density and vibrancy they need?
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Yes, I'm smart. No, smart people aren't nice. And so no, I won't tell you if I find your unicorn.
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Drafts? I'm a blogger, sir! Half the time I haven't even *read* what I publish, let alone edited it.
As for writing vs reading, I'd say the majority of my time is spent on the latter activity, although sometimes when I have a lot of long posts or one really long one, that can take a while to write. -
Along with RSS feeds, this is one of the main things missing from Formspring. And there are a lot of technical glitches to iron out too. But it'll happen -- there's no reason, for instance, that Formspring shouldn't automatically provide a list on my page of answerers whom I follow on Twitter.
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Try to get work as an economist, I guess. I'm not sure what good economists do, but some of them make a great deal of money.
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Are your counterparts in Bangalore borrowing thousands of dollars to renovate their kitchen islands?
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Good, well-written ones. Life's too short to read boring books, no matter how worthy they are.
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Profit is to a large degree what you want it to be: remember that it's what's left over *after* you pay all your employees all their bonuses, invest in their pet projects, etc etc. If you've owned a business, you've probably tried to spend a bunch of money at the end of the year to make sure that you don't show a profit. Big corporations are not dissimilar, and the shareholders like it 'cos it means corporate taxes are lower. It certainly doesn't affect the dividend. So official profits are not a very useful indicator of anything much.
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I think it's too early to tell. Both have created some amazingly iconic works, as well as some unbelievably ugly paintings. I suspect that Hirst has a bit more art-historical importance, while Koons is maybe a little better at capturing the imagination of art collectors and the public at large. I think as a person Hirst is more interesting, Koons is much more inscrutable.
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I have a feeling, and I'm not sure where I get it from, that the most interesting strategic and tactical thinking these days is coming out of the Army. If you're looking to join the officer corps and do writing and thinking along with a solid grounding in real-world soldiering, I think that's the place to be. But this is a million miles from my area of expertise -- and of course I'd imagine that the casualty rate in the Army is higher than that in say the Air Force.
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Linking to foreign-language articles is tough -- but the eurointelligence.com daily news briefing is good, and something along those lines but done on an intraday basis would be fantastic. Give it a go, see if it's fun and if it works!
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It's non-rival, and it brings my blog entries to a large audience of people who would otherwise not read them. What's not to like?
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In this weather? I'd wear the heaviest woollen suit you own.
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