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The Foundations of Cooperation
“The foundation of cooperation is not really trust, but the durability of the relationship.” – Robert Axelrod
Mencken on Politics
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ” –H. L. Mencken
New Blog and Feed Address
Please update your RSS readers to my new Feed address:
Charlie Munger on Getting Ahead
We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It’s a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who’s rich and you ask,
“How can I become like you, except faster?”;
Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Step by step you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts. But you build discipline by preparing for fast spurts… Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day, at the end of the day – if you live long enough – most people get what they deserve.
- Charlie Munger
Warren Buffett on Effort and Value
Out of school I offered to work for [Benjamin] Graham for free and he said I was overpriced.
– Warren Buffett
Samuel Adams on Freedom
If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
- Samuel Adams
Keynes on the Currency
There is no subtler, surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and it does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
– John Maynard Keynes
Tumblr customer service blows me away
When’s the last time that you had an accurate, timely, thorough, and polite response to an email to a free service?
——-Original Message——-
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:05:25 -0800
To: support@tumblr.com
Subject: Migrating from squarespace>I’m abandoning my squarespace blog and moving to Tumblr. I have my own
>custom domain. My old RSS feed is at:
>
>http://www.startupboy.com/journal/rss.xml
>
>How do I set my tumblr RSS feed to be at the same address! I don’t
>want to lose all of my subscribers in the move… Can I map the domain
>to tumblr and then set the feed URL from somewhere inside Tumblr? Can
>I use a third-party service like Feedburner to do it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Naval
>Hi, Naval. Tumblr doesn’t allow the creation of a custom RSS feed address. You might try burning your Tumblr feed in FeedBurner, using FeedBurner’s MyBrand feature to associate the burned feed with your custom domain, and then editing the Custom HTML of your Tumblr theme to point browsers/RSS readers to the RSS feed from FeedBurner MyBrand rather than to Tumblr’s default RSS feed.
I know MyBrand will let you keep http://www.startupboy.com in your feed address. I’m not sure if it will let you keep /journal/rss.xml. You’d have to experiment or ask the FeedBurner folks.
Info from FeedBurner:
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/publishers/mybrand
Sorry that I can’t be of more help on this issue. Please let me know if there’s anything else I can help you with. Thanks for using Tumblr!
Marc :-)
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Tumblr Support
support@tumblr.com
Yahoo!’s Search Brand is Done
Turns out that Yahoo! search can’t find the Pirate Bay. Between moves like this and forcing page inclusion instead of crawling, I as a user, have moved on from Yahoo!. The other day I needed to go back to Yahoo! search to use their backlink checker, and instinctively did this… (see image)
New year, new blog
I wasn’t posting enough on my old blog since:
- SquareSpace is annoying
- I was writing long, infrequent posts
I’ll post more frequently on my new WordPress blog – shorter, mor wide-ranging topics, and more as notes to self than anything else.
