Chad Aaron Hall

In NeuroTribes , Silberman writes that many in Silicon Valley, in the tech industry, seem autistic. I’ve noticed that many autobiographical authors and graphic novelists do too. There’s a connection between autobiographical self-expression and autism, or auto-ism , from the Greek word auto , meaning “self” or “self-referential.” Pain and discomfort... See more

Better, perhaps we can trade a large reduction in the taxation of savings and investment so that more people don’t need social security as a transfer program. The big social security reform should focus on making it financially possible for late middle age Americans to continue to work. Fix the incentives and you fix the money.

Bringing it back home, 69 of Iowa’s 99 counties have contracted since 2010, along with 10 of its 15 micropolitan counties. This ongoing struggle of midsized counties has negative economic and social consequences. Residents in surrounding rural areas depend on them for jobs, essential services, public goods and other commercial and recreational... See more

So I make every note card with the assumption that I will later have forgotten just about everything about the book/article/paper/interview from which the note card comes from.

If I am capturing an interesting idea, for instance, I surround it with context—the way it might appear in a paragraph in an article. (much more on this and many examples... See more

When I was working on something I cared about, productivity was never an issue. Somehow I just did it. I had the focus I needed because I cared about the task at hand.

Since then, both Chen's and Franklin's salaries are back to normal, and Gravity repaid them their lost wages that they had voluntarily given up.