Friday, December 17, 2010

Celebration of nerdiness

This is a bit more personal a post than most will be, but I was tickled to see that Amazon has decided to recommend Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason to me as a book I would like to read. With that, I believe I may have maxed out Amazon's algorithm for nerdy, prestige driven intellectuals. Equally entertaining is the fact that I actually took a course at Oxford entirely focused on that one book for an entire term, so had it not been for that, I might have wanted a copy myself.

More coming soon. I think I'll denounce the tax-cut compromise yet again soon, and also float a note on the behavioral research related to optimal bonus sizes. Spoiler alert: research shows that incentives work to enhance performance in a non-linear fashion, and can at times be destructive as well.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Standing by for that post, and yes, you are the ultimate jock-nerd.