June 2010
6 posts
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The Runaway General →
Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan, has seized control of the war by never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House.
The Peter Principle in action.
More fully, Gen. McChrystal’s current position requires a different skill set from that in which he previously excelled at. Unfortunately for Pres. Obama, Gen. McChrystal lacks this new...
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If Your Company Went Out of Business, Would... →
If your customers can live without you, eventually they will.
Just look at the largest companies. Sure Google, Microsoft, et al. are worth billions, but they themselves provide services that are worth many times more than that. In fact, no dollar amount could ever properly incorporate their collective value. The services that these companies provide are invaluable. So, could we live without...
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Appraisal of Current Financial Regulation Efforts
Below is an essay that I completed for a course in monetary policy. The goal was to critically appraise financial regulation efforts in light of the recent financial crisis.
Essay Prompt: Drawing on the experience of the Great Financial Crisis, critically appraise how changes in the system of financial regulation might assist avoidance of future such financial crises.
In order to critically...
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On Apple iOS System Apps →
Users aren’t the only ones who are constricted by iOS’s system apps being tied to the system as a whole. Apple is too — updates to these apps only ship as part of an entire iOS system update. A bug fix in one system app — Mail, Safari, Weather, whatever — doesn’t ship to users until the next release of the entire OS.
You’d think that Apple would have produced a simple solution to this...
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Andre.io — A "Soft" Opening
Andre.io is here! This is not to say that http://andregarrigo.com/ will cease to exist. Rather, andre.io will be the domain of my blog while andregarrigo.com will serve as my primary “landing” page on the web. Over the next few months I plan on redesigning the layout of both websites.
So alas, I have given in to the temptation and reverted back to using Tumblr (from Wordpress)....