Invitations and Becomings

It's the curse of the intellectual: the elevation of what JS Mill would call the higher pleasures over the mundane practicalities of life. You can quote eighteenth century idealist texts, but can't remember to pay your bills, or pick up the milk. Despite most memory techniques being more suited to remembering random numbers than the milk, I've recently found reasons to be optimistic about the possibility of improving my memory, and repairing my reputation for absent-mindedness.

Wanted to mention David Foley's article on the interesting limits to the analogy between classical thermodynamics and the general equilibrium view of economics. I can't do it justice, but I'll try to give you the gist.

One by-product of a recent debate about email's compatibility or incompatibility with wikis is that we can begin to understand not only weaknesses as a medium of collaboration, but also its strengths.