{"id":3994,"date":"2011-12-27T12:32:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/?p=3994"},"modified":"2011-12-27T12:32:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T20:32:21","slug":"corrected-earlier-post-happy-to-be-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/corrected-earlier-post-happy-to-be-human\/","title":{"rendered":"CORRECTED EARLIER POST (happy to be human)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>CORRECTED EARLIER POST (happy to be human) &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, for those who think that academia is \u201cquieter\u201d and a emotionally soothing transition after the volatile risk-taking business life, a surprise: when in action, new problems and scares emerge every day to displace and eliminate the previous day\u2019s headaches, resentments, and conflicts. A nail displaces another nail. But academics seem to hate each other; they live in petty obsessions, envy, and hatreds, with small snubs developing into grudges, fossilized over time in the loneliness of the transaction with a computer screen&#8230; Contact with the brutish world of words on PDF pages reignited my love of the transactional : commerce, business, markets, Levantine souks (though not large-scale markets), activities and places that bring their best in people, makes them forgiving, honest, loving, trusting, and open-minded. I want to be happy to be human and be in an environment in which other people are in love of their fate \u2014and never thought that it was a certain form of commerce. Matt Ridley made me feel that it was truly the Phoenician in me that was the intellectual.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150470360928375&amp;id=13012333374\">CORRECTED EARLIER&#8230; | Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CORRECTED EARLIER POST (happy to be human) &#8211; Incidentally, for those who think that academia is \u201cquieter\u201d and a emotionally soothing transition after the volatile risk-taking business life, a surprise: when in action, new problems and scares emerge every day to displace and eliminate the previous day\u2019s headaches, resentments, and conflicts. A nail displaces another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3995,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions\/3995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackswanreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}