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Can use this to make back-illuminated CMOS imagers.

I’m a new parent. This is interesting.

On setting policy in the home: “When it comes down to it, the policies need constant adjustment. It’s actually an issue of management rather than just setting the parameters correctly.”

On rugrats gaming the system: “Parents can design their own rules, but the scarce resource of a parent and governments, for that matter, too, is attention. Two-year-olds seem to have unlimited time to figure out how to use regulation to their benefit. That’s something they share with, say, bankers.”

On making incentives to get one kid to help the other kid potty train: “Well, I realized that if I helped my brother go to the toilet, I would get rewarded, too. So I realized that the more that goes in, the more comes out. So I was just feeding my brother buckets and buckets of water.”

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First learned about it here. Now it is outlined again here.

Make a prioritized list of productive activities. Procrastinate on the highest priority items by doing one of the lower-ranked tasks.

A winning presidential platform? Yeah right. Planet Money interviewed several left, right, center economists and made a list of six policy proposals on which they could all agree. Food for thought.

1. Eliminate mortgage interest deduction
2. Tax employer-provided health care
3. Eliminate corporate income tax
4. Eliminate all income, payroll tax. Replace with progressive consumption tax.
5. Tax carbon emissions, including gasoline.
6. Legalize marijuana

Summary here

Here’s a picture I took in early 2011 at JPL. It’s a big sucker.

Happy landing tonight.

“Most of these ideas have come about because I had nothing to do for a period. And that’s almost critical to invention. You need to identify a need, but also you need to have time to think about it.”