Author: Jared Korver
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Honda, Maserati, and what a logo costs
A fun trick to not spend money on dumb stuff is to ask, “how much are they charging me for that logo?” Sometimes the logo is actually indicative of a history of quality and reliability–like the Honda “H.” In which case the logo has become a signal for actual value. But other…
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Open offices and the status quo
If you’ve ever wondered how we got to this point, a recent podcast from NPR’s Planet Money has an interesting look at the birth of the open office. (“This point” being where the evidence has caught up to what anyone who’s worked in an open office has known all along: they are…
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People are watching
I had breakfast on Friday with a good friend of mine. Since it was Friday, and since we were two good friends having breakfast, it was a lot of fun. And actually, even if you had just a combination of two out of those three–Friday, Friend, and Breakfast–you’d be hard pressed…
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For the love of money
I have no empirical data to support this claim, but anecdotally, one of the most misquoted sentences of all time is surely, “For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evils.” Many times people just say, “Money is the root of all evil.” The reason the…
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“Live a gentle human-size life.”
Dave Winer, one of the fathers of the Internet, wrote a great post on his blog the other day about Peter Thiel and “the struggle to live more than one life.” The point of the post is this: no amount of money or cool things will allow you to be…
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What “struggling” doesn’t mean
Look. I’m here because artificial poverty makes me sad and angry. And though I see and hear plenty of examples of it firsthand (and am at times guilty of it myself), there are of course these outrageous published accounts about how “We’re struggling to get by on £200,000 a year.” This statement,…
Meaningful Returns 