Caveat: Divorce and IPOs

Tyler Cowen's Marginal Revolution blog had an interesting observation about the fact that apparently, the divorce rate in Silicon Valley goes up every time there's a giant IPO (e.g. Cisco, Google). This is apropos of the recent Facebook IPO, of course – although it should be noted that the Zuck got married on Saturday – not divorced. Maybe the divorce comes next week.

Caveat: Math

I was talking on the phone – “phone teaching” – with a 4th grader named Jiyun.

“What are you doing?” I asked.

“I’m studying.”

“What are you studying?”

“Math,” she answered, laconically.

“Do you like math?” I asked, trying to draw her out.

“Nooo. No. I don’t like math.” She paused. “It’s’s a big problem. My mother is a math teacher,” she explained. Perfect English. Especially for a 4th grade elementary student. She’d made me laugh. I was impressed.

Speaking of math:

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[Daily log: walking, 5 km; running, 2 km]

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