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Jeremy Meyer has a good post that touches on a great classification of people. I aim (hope) to be in the Intelligent Lazy group.

What group do you think you’re in? If not already there, what group would you like to be in?

I was watching The Big Idea, and this lady, Guari Nanda came on asking a question. She piqued my interest, and I googled her. I found out that this MIT Media Lab Alumnus came up with a few ideas. One of them is truly a big idea, check it out.

Paul Graham’s most recent essay touches on what a city says to you. One few points stood out: NYC is expensive, and unless you’re donning a suit, most wont take you seriously.

This suggests an answer to a question people in New York have wondered about since the Bubble: whether New York could grow into a startup hub to rival Silicon Valley. One reason that’s unlikely is that someone starting a startup in New York would feel like a second class citizen. [3] There’s already something else people in New York admire more.

In the long term, that could be a bad thing for New York. The power of an important new technology does eventually convert to money. So by caring more about money and less about power than Silicon Valley, New York is recognizing the same thing, but slower. [4] And in fact it has been losing to Silicon Valley at its own game: the ratio of New York to California residents in the Forbes 400 has decreased from 1.45 (81:56) when the list was first published in 1982 to .83 (73:88) in 2007.

Sad, but true. He talks about Cambridge, MA (Boston) and Silicon Valley, CA. Being raised in the great city of NY, I’ve always thought this, but never had any real evidence. Comparing a Forbes lists from 1982 to 2007 is a start. Anyway, it’s a good read, check it out.

For a long time, I thought 2005’s Crash was simply one of the best modern films made. It was a reasonable story, with a a cast of imperfect characters. It was just good. I felt Syriana and The Kingdom did well in educating viewers (who may not have been aware) of the true costs of oil. OK, well No Country for Old Men has joined that short list for me. So many themes, and facets packed into just a few hours. IMDB tells me it won 4 Oscars, and 83 other awards. Not to mention the 36 other nominations. I saw exactly why.

The cinematography was perfect, with beautiful shots of wilderness. The film didn’t flinch at night shots, which many films fail at. The lack of music was a plus – forcing me to wait on the next possible break in silence. More or less, it forced you to actually live in the moment. As to say, even in war, your moments are filled with waiting… waiting for the actual act.

As for the cast, I have never seen such a succinct and disturbing portryal of true psychopath in a long time. Anton Shigur’s (said psychopath) every step is based simply on the concept that fate has brought him to make that step. Making his madness something very… special? A truly amoral being. Killing as the result of a coin toss… or in fact, not killing based on the same toss. The odd thing is even to the end, it seems as if he is right (you’ll see). It caused me to look at almost every moment of the movie, thinking, “Wow, what if?” For example, look to the beginning of the movie: What if Llewellyn didn’t go back the give the dying man water?

Some how, in all of the violence, and death, there were spots of true comedy. How this was done, who knows. I don’t know if that was in Cormac McCarthy’s novel, or the Coen brothers added it. But either way, genius. To some extent, this reminded me of the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Except none of main characters ever really share a scene. Another facet that made the film even better. Even if this movie was just half as good as McCarthy’s novel, he’s clearly in the upper echelon.