Blogging on bureaucracy, organizations, USDA, agriculture programs, American history, the food movement, and other interests. Often contrarian, usually optimistic, sometimes didactic, occasionally funny, rarely wrong, always a nitpicker.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
A Praiseworthy Blog Post: On the Failure of Foresight
Credit where due: Will Oremus at Slate has a post, a very meritorious post. (Have I ever admitted I was wrong? Don't think so. Then I'm not wrong much.) Subject: Snapchat. Some sentences:
And then I wrapped things up by predicting
that he'd look back someday in bitter regret at passing up the $3
billion. It was a pretty zingy blog post, if I may say so.
It was also, as is probably quite clear by now, utterly wrong.
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