A Call for Joy in Corporate America

Traditional corporations, particularly large-scale service and manufacturing businesses, are organized for efficiency. Or consistency. But not joy.

This is a really, short article by Seth Godin about the nature of how and why some companies do what they do. It is so rare to hear the call from the business world that efficiency is not the answer. Organizing for Joy

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A Celebration of Work by Mike Rowe

This is a 20 minute long video, and most of you won’t watch it all, but know that it includes…

1. Mike Rowe glorying in the gift of hard work, but not knowing who get’s the acclaim and for Whom the work is worked for.
2. An example of humility in learning, in the form of a changed opinion and a willingness to change it.
3. More classical knowledge than you would expect from the host of a show called Dirty Jobs.
4. Plain talk about animal husbandry, including the necessary lingo.
5. An exceptionally cringe-worthy anecdote behind the whole storyline.
6. A little bit of crassness, which comes with Mike Rowe. I know you know how to get past it, but it’s there (and, oh! how dizzy the TBAP hit counters get when a bit of crassness is allowed admittance).

It’s disgusting and inspiring simultaneously.

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Listen, Kids! It’s a High-Functioning Ignoramus.

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Don’t Know Much About Economics?

Here’s a taste of the first principles…

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Three Months of Amazon Prime for Free!

If you purchase an eligible textbook from Amazon, they are offering a three-month trial period of Prime. You know that you know a college student. Ask them what they need.

Prime generally offers unlimited, two-day shipping on items sold by Amazon (directly, not through 3rd parties), with no minimum orders.

Textbooks at Amazon

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Geography of a Recession

Very interesting moving-visual of unemployment.

HT: Ron Kenney

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The Cutting Edge

I love stories about making much out of nothing. Bob Kramer kind of wandered around until he found he knew how to make knives…and sell them for $300/inch.

The Cutting Edge

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Please Don’t Think That The System is Tanking Because Its Flawed

Capitalism works. Here is why we have our current housing crisis.

From television specials to newspaper editorials, the media are pushing the idea that current economic problems were caused by the market and that only the government can rescue us.

What was lacking in the housing market, they say, was government regulation of the market’s “greed.” That makes great moral melodrama, but it turns the facts upside down.

It was precisely government intervention which turned a thriving industry into a basket case.

Read the rest by Thomas Sowell: Upside Down Economics

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A Trillion Saved is a Trillion Earned

It’s not a panacea, but it would be a start:  FairTax.

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Quote of the Day

Benjamin Franklin…

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.  Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”

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