A founder/CEO who claimed to have no knowledge of whether the technology of his/her company is actually working is either lying or grossly incompetent.
2021-09-08
2021-07-20
CEO pay fairness
I think if you define fairness by “fair market value”, then C.E.O.s are paid fairly. I think if you define fairness by how you think society should value people, then I think C.E.O.s are paid too much. – Dara Khosrowshahi, the C.E.O. of Uber, in an interview.
If every new hire is paid an above average market value (as likely in the senior executive job market), that will lead to an exponentially higher growth of compensation than otherwise (e.g., the minimum wage job market).
2021-07-08
Home demolition
Astonishing photos from AP of Israel leveling family home of an alleged Palestinian attacker.
Justice and human-rights issues aside, wouldn’t it be more economical to repossess the home and such?
2021-07-07
Cannot afford to help 扶不起的阿斗
A corrupt, incompetent national government lost to a popular local militia as the foreign supporter leaves; Afghanistan in 2021, China in 1949, etc.
2021-01-18
Fairness
If we continue this line of reasoning, is it fair for younger, healthy people in richer nations to receive more heath care, social welfare, etc., than vulnerable people in poorer states?
How should we define fairness across different groups of people?
Is such fairness achievable or desirable?
Money, discipline, and life
Without enough disciplines, money, talent, or other resources cannot solve our problems, if not create more.
2020-11-03
Election night doodling
“The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.” – Will Rogers
2020-04-12
Scaffolding knowledge
Every information is a piece of an entire knowledge, so instead of treating what we learn as separate fragments, it is more effective to memorize and understand them as a whole.
This is possible because knowledge often repeats in different forms, such as through history or books.
In effect, Funes not only remembered every leaf on every tree of every wood, but even every one of the times he had perceived or imagined it.
To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract. In the overly replete world of Funes there were nothing but details, almost contiguous details.
– Funes the Memorious
2020-04-03
The pandemic world war
When this is all over,
The disease will dissipate,
The economy will recover,
But the world order will be very different.
