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	<title>Matthew T Grant &#187; Thinking Out Loud</title>
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		<title>What Is the Goal of Business?</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/02/01/what-is-the-goal-of-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The primary goal of any business, is to stay in business. You need to bring in more money than you spend in order to stay in business (though, strictly speaking, you can stay in business by bringing in exactly as much as you spend). In order to bring in any money at all, you need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In General</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/31/in-general/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All generalizations are either false or tautologous. The goal of science is to create new generalizations. The goal of philosophy is to demonstrate that said generalizations are either false or tautologous. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>What Is the Meaning of This!</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/18/what-is-the-meaning-of-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The meaning of an action or event is never immanent to it. Instead, it resides in what happens next. Of course, the meaning of &#8220;what happens next&#8221; in turn depends on what happens after that. As Jonathan Culler apparently said, &#8221;Meaning is context-bound, but context is boundless.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Do the Things We Do</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/18/why-we-do-the-things-we-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2012/01/18/why-we-do-the-things-we-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[ego]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-awareness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People often do this or that, not because they want to do this or that, but because they want to be the kind of person who does this or that.]]></description>
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		<title>No Reason to Stop</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/11/13/no-reason-to-stop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/11/13/no-reason-to-stop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 03:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking Out Loud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life lessons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[youth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Standing on the corner of College Avenue and Dryden Friday night at 1:30ish, watching undergraduates stagger around aimlessly and shout at/to each other, I turned to my friend saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna call it a night, even though, frankly, there&#8217;s really no reason to stop.&#8221; &#8220;Now you see how I&#8217;m living,&#8221; he replied. Just a moment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street: An Infantile Disorder?</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/10/17/occupy-wall-street-an-infantile-disorder/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/10/17/occupy-wall-street-an-infantile-disorder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read this New York Times article about the demands, or lack thereof, of the Occupy Wall Street movement and it reminded me of Lenin&#8217;s Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder. If I remember correctly, Lenin&#8217;s pamphlet was aimed at German radicals like Rosa Luxemburg and basically said that radicalism that preached &#8220;no compromise,&#8221; and which rejected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus Means Saying &#8220;No&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/10/11/focus-means-saying-no/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/10/11/focus-means-saying-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in August I became conscious of this fellow, Derek Sivers, who created CD Baby (later selling it for $22 million and giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education). If you poke around his blog, you&#8217;ll quickly find this post on saying &#8220;No.&#8221; Well, technically, it&#8217;s about simplifying your life by deciding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dialectic of Job Creation</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/09/29/the-dialectic-of-job-creation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/09/29/the-dialectic-of-job-creation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[class struggle]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Brown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scott Brown was asked recently to comment on Elizabeth Warren and he, predictably, refused. He said that he wasn&#8217;t going to weigh in on the field of Democratic candidates for the senate seat he now holds but, as a way of obliquely criticizing Warren, he also said that he wasn&#8217;t going to &#8220;beat up on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review and Rehearsal</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/09/27/review-and-rehearsal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/09/27/review-and-rehearsal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[consciousness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[neurochemicals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago I read J. Allan Hobson&#8217;s The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness and though I found the book somewhat frustrating, as I wrote in this review, I did learn a thing or two from it. First of all, I learned a little about the neurochemical states that mark the transition from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Warren, Class Warfare, and the Nature of Wealth</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/09/25/elizabeth-warren-class-warfare-and-the-nature-of-wealth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2011/09/25/elizabeth-warren-class-warfare-and-the-nature-of-wealth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[class struggle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Warren has been enjoying a kind of viral popularity on Facebook due to some statements she made, apparently as part of her stump speech, which can be summed up with these words, &#8220;There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.&#8221; Warren lays out the basic rational for taxation by pointing [...]]]></description>
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