Fri Oct 13 18:03:29 UTC 2017
Welp, it's Friday 13th in the month of October.
Spoofy.
Anyways, time-block.
| Time (PDT) | Intention | Revision 1 | Revision 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0000 | TV: We Bare Bears | ||
| 0030 | TV: We Bare Bears | ||
| 0100 | SLEEP | ||
| 0130 | SLEEP | ||
| 0200 | SLEEP | ||
| 0230 | SLEEP | ||
| 0300 | SLEEP | ||
| 0330 | SLEEP | ||
| 0400 | SLEEP | ||
| 0430 | SLEEP | ||
| 0500 | SLEEP | ||
| 0530 | SLEEP | ||
| 0600 | SLEEP | ||
| 0630 | SLEEP | ||
| 0700 | SLEEP | ||
| 0730 | SLEEP | ||
| 0800 | SLEEP | ||
| 0830 | SLEEP | ||
| 0900 | Waking up | ||
| 0930 | Computer | ||
| 1000 | Walk to work | ||
| 1030 | PLANNING | ||
| 1100 | SST Weekly Standup | ||
| 1130 | Fix borked tests | Lunch | |
| 1200 | Lunch | ||
| 1230 | Lunch | ||
| 1300 | Zendesk Connector | Lunch | |
| 1330 | Zendesk Connector | Lunch | |
| 1400 | Zendesk Connector | Fix borked tests | |
| 1430 | Zendesk Connector | ||
| 1500 | Social buffer | Zendesk Connector | |
| 1530 | Zendesk Connector | ||
| 1600 | Zendesk Connector | Ping pong | |
| 1630 | Zendesk Connector | Ping pong | |
| 1700 | Zendesk Connector | Ping pong | |
| 1730 | Social buffer | Ping pong | |
| 1800 | Actions: Reading | Zendesk Connector | |
| 1830 | Actions: Reading | ||
| 1900 | End of day review | Weekly Review | |
| 1930 | Veggie Grill | ||
| 2000 | Veggie Grill | ||
| 2030 | Buffer | ||
| 2100 | Buffer | ||
| 2130 | Buffer | ||
| 2200 | Seattle Symphony | ||
| 2230 | Seattle Symphony | ||
| 2300 | Buffer | Seattle Symphony | |
| 2330 | Buffer | Travel home |
Gots some fun stuff planned today.
Sat Oct 14 02:31:55 UTC 2017
Moar "Basic Economics" reading!
I have just finished "Chapter 2: The Role of Prices", and it's a well-written justification of the magic of the free-market. It is well-written in that it is fun to read and gives valid examples of the impossibility of top-down control, and how fluctuating prices redistribute resources effectively. It also is clearly avoiding any of the harder examples that show what happense when the free market fails.
Monopolies? Conflicts of interest? Really, it seems so far that the concept of "leverage" is completely ignored. Who has ownership or control and how does that affect the economic game? It's a really important part of economics, and a significant reason why a pure free-market simply can not exist. The people who end up controlling the scarce resources, whatever their means in acquiring such power, now have arbitrary control over those resources, thus destroying the free market. They effectively become a government, and there's nothing stopping them from being a particularly poor government.
His arguments against top-down control are valid, but they are not complete. The system we have currently arrived at is still imperfect. There are flaws, and how we go about addressing the flaws may indeed require retrying strategies that didn't work universally, but may work in specific situations.
There are 27 chapters in the book. So either I'll need to be comfortable stopping in the middle of a chapter, or some days I need to read more than others.
We'll see what I do.
The next chapter is "Price Controls". I'm sure I'll enjoy that.