In A Decade or So,

Charter Cities

As seen on the Harvard Business Review’s List of 10 Breakthrough Ideas for 2010

Make Light.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
-Charlie Chaplin

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Remove the laughing track,
It thieves, it steals from the cold hard facts.

Free.

I've got my life back,

Now, what do I do with it?

A Mouthful.

What a day! A morning of frantic studying after a fitful night in bed praying for mercy for an afternoon paper, then the very much dreaded open book exam, walking into the exam hall with Einstein like classmates carrying a feet high worth of material and books I've never seen in my life! (which to my surprise disproved my initial hypothesis of a correlation between amount of material and level of intelligence), a basketball showdown between our econs lecturers + honours crew, watched the God forsaken slovakia vs NZ soccer match thinking it was going to be the Brazil vs North Corea game, leaving 15 minutes into the second half to check out the ball of flame at the Fed Square, then celebrated with the New Zealanders their goal at the 90th minute at the Transport Bar.
I couldn't have asked for a better day : )

Sleep Easy Now.

Its comforting to know I'm not the lone lost soul.

Heavyweight.

On average, which of the following is the heaviest?
A. Baby whale
B. Baby elephant

Because I'm paying good money to be an economist and not a biologist, I'll leave this question to the experts.

Jen's utility function
u(final exams) = u(distractions) + beta u(foodconsumption)

where beta>1

Inexplicable.

So visually appealing, I can't peel my eyes of this video by

Tame Impala

Sure beats page long log linearization of RBC models without guarantee of a solution that's for sure.

Embracing Adulthood.

As they say, age is but a number.

Only the churlish child would spell adulthood as adultdoom.