eclectic, pragmatic, enthusiastic
Richard Posner is a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago and a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. An article published in the Journal of Legal Studies identified Posner as the most cited legal scholar of all time, and the New York Times called … Read more
Just a quick update on the BYU Independent Study OCW. A few weeks ago I gave the following initial status report: So far the results are very positive – 85 of the 3500 people who visited the OCW site last month registered for for-credit courses. In other words, 2.4% of people who visited the OCW … Read more
Seth Godin expands on Kevin Kelley’s Better than Free. Seth’s takeaway: “when there are infinite copies of something, charging for one is almost impossible.” Or in Kevin’s words, When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies are super abundant, stuff which can’t be copied becomes scarce and valuable. When copies are free, you … Read more