Jakob Lodwick, an entrepreneur and co-founder of Vimeo, recently raised $2 million simply on the promise that he might have a good idea for a company in the near future.
– Disruptions: The Sloshing Sound of Tech Valuations - NYTimes.comThere was a ten year old boy and I went up to him and I said “hey what’s your dream?” And he looked at me and he put his head down. I was like “what is that?” And I said, “do you have a dream?” And he mumbled his words: “All I have is nightmares.
– Adam Beach on Northern Communities in CanadaA would-be saboteur arrested today at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland made the bizarre claim that he was from the future. …. would not reveal his country of origin. “Countries do not exist where I am from. The discovery of the Higgs boson led to limitless power, the elimination of poverty and Kit-Kats for everyone. It is a communist chocolate hellhole and I’m here to stop it ever happening.
– Mike Daiseydata show that drinking and earnings are positively correlated. We hypothesize that drinking leads to higher earnings by increasing social capital. If drinkers have larger social networks, their earnings should increase.
– Reason Foundation - No Booze? You May Lose


