Word of the Day: Trading

Trading also can mean many things, but on the Internet, it tends to mean financial trading. Like E*Trade. Or TD Ameritrade. Trading stocks, bonds, ETFs.

Word of the Day: Claim

You would need to disambiguate this one in a dictionary or Wikipedia as well, but the main meaning I intend here is a legal claim. Such as a claim to a piece of land. Or quit claim deed. Or personal injury claim. Or accident claim.

Word of the Day: Degree

Take this to mean what you will, temperature scale, whatever, but on the Internet, this makes you think of academic degrees. Like online school, PhD, certifications, whatever. So think about what kind of degrees you have. And what you want.

As time goes on, educational degrees go more from teaching real skills that contribute to value and the economy, to mere positional/signalling devices that determine distribution of a fixed pie. So says Peter Thiel, who has two degrees. From Stanford. Another reason for change/revolution.

In the midst of stagnation, education has become a status game, "purely positional and extremely decoupled" from the question of its benefit to the individual and society.

George Packer, Profiles, “No Death, No Taxes,” The New Yorker, November 28, 2011, p. 44

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/11/28/111128fa_fact_packer#ixzz1f7vas2u7

Word of the Day: Lawyer

OK, I know we just did attorney, but in order to make this puzzle work, now I have to do lawyer. Seriously.

The second word/topic is lawyer, synonymous with attorney. I am a lawyer, as of the moment, an inactive member of the California bar. Please don't hate me for it, as I don't identify with it, although I have an office at Stanford Law School (I have one in Gates computer science as well). Lawyer. Ugh.

Word of the Day: Attorney

The second word/topic is attorney, synonymous with lawyer. I am a lawyer, as of the moment, an inactive member of the California bar. Please don't hate me for it, as I don't identify with it, although I have an office at Stanford Law School (I have one in Gates computer science as well). Attorney.

Word of the Day: Loans

OK, I'm doing a little experiment/puzzle here. Over the coming weeks, I'll be discussing a topic/word of the day. At the end, I'll reveal how they are all connected. See if you can guess before then. So today, we're talking about loans, loans, loans. As in mortgages, convertible notes, liar loans, any a loan pretty much any which way. So there you go. Loans.

Tim Ferriss (The 4hr Guy) has a new cookbook

The 4-Hour Chef – The First Kindle Fire Book Teaser

http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2011/11/29/the-4-hour-chef-the-first-kindle-fire-book-teaser/