http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/01/01/the-end-of-newspapers-as-we-know-them/ Self-Experimentation, Scientific Method, the Shangri-La Diet, etc. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:35:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/01/01/the-end-of-newspapers-as-we-know-them/#comment-254434 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:00:17 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/01/01/the-end-of-newspapers-as-we-know-them/#comment-254434 It was much much easier to ignore them than to do something. To do something that might have been useful would have involved starting whole new projects. Getting people to work on those projects -- of questionable career relevance -- would have been incredibly hard given their apparently flimsy motivation. It was much much easier to ignore them than to do something. To do something that might have been useful would have involved starting whole new projects. Getting people to work on those projects — of questionable career relevance — would have been incredibly hard given their apparently flimsy motivation.

]]> http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/01/01/the-end-of-newspapers-as-we-know-them/#comment-254386 Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:27:00 +0000 http://www.blog.sethroberts.net/2009/01/01/the-end-of-newspapers-as-we-know-them/#comment-254386 why the heck do we tend not to act on these things? i don't mean to judge finance and newspaper people. i tend to be a fan of capitalism and tend to think that the market is the best you're going to get in judgments, but it's weird to think people are looking at numbers and saying, 'wow, the numbers aren't good, but let's just ignore them and see what happens,' then things fall apart. maybe people have a habit of procrastinating, in the hopes some answer will emerge, and maybe this is a decent strategy often, since it seems like it comes so naturally. why the heck do we tend not to act on these things? i don’t mean to judge finance and newspaper people. i tend to be a fan of capitalism and tend to think that the market is the best you’re going to get in judgments, but it’s weird to think people are looking at numbers and saying, ‘wow, the numbers aren’t good, but let’s just ignore them and see what happens,’ then things fall apart. maybe people have a habit of procrastinating, in the hopes some answer will emerge, and maybe this is a decent strategy often, since it seems like it comes so naturally.

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