malthus
i suppose if i had taken economics at a liberal arts college rather than at a business school i would have heard of the reverend thomas malthus. an anglican parson born in 1766, malthus was a negative voice during a time of widespread optimism. he was the first to put forward a theory about the relationship between the earth's natural resources and the people who consume them... [read on]
things
it clicked for me yesterday. it was one of those things that i have known all along but that i had never spelled out mentally. so it wasn’t really a revelation. nor was it a passing thought.
and here it is: learning new things is what makes me tick.
i love learning stuff. it doesn’t have to be relevant. it doesn’t have to apply. i don’t even have to be that interested in the subject, as long as i’m learning something new, and not spending too much energy to learn it. (example: for the past several weeks, i’ve been listening to a lecture series by a berkeley geography professor. many of his lectures have dealt with the native grasses of the mid-western united states, the towing capacity of large mammals, and the wind patterns of the great plains.)
so, here’s the deal: i’m going to start posting the new things that i learn on this site. they will not be packaged up in a nice structured way. they will not (necessarily) argue a point. they will not be stellar pieces of writing. they might be things you already know.