Archive for May, 2006
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
CEO Pay OK. It’s Congress that needs fixing.
To follow up on my previous post about the regression of federal tax rates. Malcolm Gladwell had a brief snippet in his blog today about CEO pay. Brief because the numbers he cites speak for themselves. The problem with the rich-poor gap today isn’t that CEOs are overcompensated but that our tax laws are woefully [...]
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
Two Worlds Collide
I scan a handful of financial blogs pretty regularly. I also scan a handful of technical blogs relating to SQL Server and Oracle. It isn’t very often that a blog from one of these worlds links to a blog in the other. But here’s JLP from AllFinancialMatters linking to Don Burleson of oracle-dba.com fame. I [...]
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Is John Bogle a Liberal?
I was listening to a short piece on NPR the other night that discussed tax laws. The claim was that “If conservatives had their way, they would only tax consumption. If liberals had their way, they would only tax savings.”
It didn’t quite seem right, but it left an impression. My understanding of tax law [...]
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Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
John Prine
For the past two years, I’ve been listening to John Prine almost constantly. I first heard The Great Compromise on Pam Hill’s 3rd Annual Rejection Day Counter-Valentine’s show on KFAI. It’s just a great song with clever lyrics and a great political sub-text. The man is seeing a beautiful woman (The United States) who he [...]
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Friday, May 12th, 2006
Betting the Company
Score another run for Fred Wilson’s VC Cliché of the week. He discusses “betting the company” by taking risks instead of managing risk.
I think this is why many (most?) big company managers fail as venture stage CEOs. They are taught to mitigate risks, to plan, to protect. They don’t want to fail and [...]
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Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006
Google Calendar Kicks Booty
Talk about making your technology easier to use. For a while, I’ve been looking for a solution to our calendaring problem. You see, Julie and I each make commitments for ourselves or for both of us. We commit. Make a mental note. And then either don’t write it down on our calendar. Don’t mention anything [...]