Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed

Quick tag cloud I created of words in Steve Jobs remembrance notes sent to Apple. [Here is the original data source]

• Steve Yegge back with another semi-rant about his days at Amazon – http://t.co/CdOSKcZ5 #
• Shocker: Economic models of risk don’t add up, cadre of researchers caution http://t.co/GmvzzyIr #
• Words that mean different things to scientists and general public – http://t.co/FkAq5LnD #
• Stop me before i buy again: Larry Ellison, the U.S.’s most voracious consumer of trophy real estate http://t.co/qyDB39Hm #
• Lots of econo metaphorical power: How removal of top predators trickles thru food web http://t.co/XC7d0PHI #
• Dan Walters: The reality behind California vs. Texas (via @goldmansachs666) http://t.co/V4JyRmlr #
• Morgan Stanley: Is Modern Central Banking Ancient History? http://t.co/rzxxkvha #
• Bookstaber on Social Unrest and Income Inequality http://t.co/v4mmZt24 #
• The Effects of Promotions on Heart Disease: Promotions reduce heart attacks, if you work for government http://t.co/vjfNv5oW #
• When Two Anomalies Meet: The Post–Earnings Announcement Drift and the Value–Glamour Anomaly http://t.co/6TeBiIm0 #
• This last happened there in Dec 1999: Canada gets wiggy for seed venture – http://t.co/wXQQ4xfD #
• Why Don’t I Like Coldplay? An Investigation – http://t.co/hhF4OX8O #
• Video of Andrew Mason making the Groupon(and on) IPO roadshow pitch http://t.co/bzhzHijv #
• Jobs’s final plan: An ‘integrated’ Apple TV – http://t.co/zqYxNPvJ #
• 200 million reasons why Apple’s upcoming TV will win the cloud TV wars – http://t.co/ZeNaq4bL /via @jonst0kes #
• I love old school people who refuse to setup their cell voicemail. Unrelated: @BrianNorgard — call me. #
• Recreational versus professional bettors: Performance differences and efficiency implications http://t.co/0y8FazBs #
• Hitler’s Last Gasp: Positive review of Kershaw’s latest – http://t.co/4Cp2Nz74 #
• What is/was the best time (and place) to be alive? http://t.co/nm7ZhUTu #
• Fascinating FT piece on Herge,Tintin and the war: http://t.co/OxMsNELh #FT #
• Wild Ride of the 1%: How wealth in US is rising & falling faster than ever http://t.co/cjzarNlO #
• Hamilton: Oil Prices, Exhaustible Resources, and Economic Growth – http://t.co/KdkkLuRB #

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Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio on Charlie Rose last night. Good viewing. Click to watch.

• On PopTech livestream. See if I can last 10 minutes. Given “globalization”, “alignment”, etc., may not be long. http://t.co/ulMilnRD #
• Nifty. RT @TechCrunch: Gooood Morning, Nerdinam: FlipZu Makes You An Instant Broadcaster http://t.co/eSsLAvWD #
• There goes my subscription: The Economist Fixes Mistake That Gave Away Free Digital Subscriptions – http://t.co/1wC7EUNh #
• The fine folks at @bcaresearch with a useful take on Europe’s crisis – http://t.co/imwoTaPq #
• This could be good: Chaos, Unpredictability and the Evolution of Mathematical Ideas – http://t.co/qePafpDP #
• Franco-German deadlock over ECB’s role in rescue fund – http://t.co/nPwYAjsZ #
• Longevity Shown for First Time to Be Inherited via a Non-DNA Mechanism – http://t.co/PIhNiCK9 /via @wrongologist #
• EU leadership decides to hold summits every day for balance of year as stimulus measure – http://t.co/Dr9sD7oG #
• Sexualized Euro Crisis QotD: “We need to impress the market with the size of our equipment, so to speak.” http://t.co/ZUuFapV4 #
• IDC: Smartphone sales world-wide passed PC sales this year: 472m units vs 362m. #
• Goldman: “Some Lessons From The Past Four Years” http://t.co/mPdWS1h5 #

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New paper on contagion in sports performance:

Putting Like a Pro: The Role of Positive Contagion in Golf Performance and Perception

Abstract

Many amateur athletes believe that using a professional athletes equipment can improve their performance. Such equipment can be said to be affected with positive contagion, which refers to the belief of transference of beneficial properties between animate persons/objects to previously neutral objects. In this experiment, positive contagion was induced by telling participants in one group that a putter previously belonged to a professional golfer. The effect of positive contagion was examined for perception and performance in a golf putting task. Individuals who believed they were using the professional golfers putter perceived the size of the golf hole to be larger than golfers without such a belief and also had better performance, sinking more putts. These results provide empirical support for anecdotes, which allege that using objects with positive contagion can improve performance, and further suggest perception can be modulated by positive contagion.

via PLoS ONE: Putting Like a Pro: The Role of Positive Contagion in Golf Performance and Perception.

Don’t know the context — a hockey game? — but I’ve been both these guys.

Good talk by China skeptic Michael Pettis:

• More to the ETF volatility debate than meets the eye http://t.co/koZTMomQ #
• Tricky. RT @FinancialTimes: Strike shuts Greece before austerity vote http://t.co/WBu3BxMq #
• Worth a look if you’re into that sort of thing: A survey of venture capital research http://t.co/QwKGnmdd #
• Surprisingly, consumers mostly know what they owe, expect in the case of credit cards, where they’re off by 50% – http://t.co/oRPEqOZ4 #
• My friend @MParekh makes this argument all the time: America is underpopulated to its detriment – http://t.co/dzrxbhqE /via @felixsalmon #
• Robin Hanson on the future of cities … of simulated humans? – http://t.co/co6bS7Ol #
• Blogs are to blame? “[W]hen government focuses on blogs, government is not focusing on how to best prepare the economy” http://t.co/VTsy4auq #
• My favorite Meekerism “wha?” quote from her slidefest: “Not intended to discredit Maslow’s hierarchy, which we believe to be accurate.” #
• Hagens: The Role of Energy in Economic Growth http://t.co/xyMCM5cj #
• Love Dropbox’s original Y-Combinator application. Smart, funny, and Drew just plain got it. http://t.co/X4xejDrF /via @sacca #
• Link to text of my colleague Harold Bradley’s ETF testimony in Senate subcommittee earlier today http://t.co/iplCtyS5 #
• Michael Winslow does Led Zep. Has to be seen to be believed. And even then. http://t.co/2K5xMUBc /via @stechert #
• Shadowy group says it targets Mexico’s Zetta drug cartel – http://t.co/rVrNBL4I #
• Will Nolan’s ‘Dark Knight Rises’ occupy Wall Street? – http://t.co/jsESbU8R #
• Merkel Risks Own Downfall to Save Greece http://t.co/VV5U5PK0 #

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Doug Short has discontinued his “four bad bears” chart, the one that compares the current downturn to prior bad bear markets. His last update is as follows: [-]