The weakness of Piketty's critics

I have not had the opportunity to read all of Piketty's critics so it is quite possible that I am unjust but the ones that have gotten the most play are weak critiques to my view and are doomed to failure because they grant Piketty too much credit. The FT critique, which I find interesting, is useless without challenging Piketty much earlier in the book, which they fail to do. The numbers work is great, as is to some extent Piketty's. The fatal problem with Piketty was alway going to be elsewhere.

I'm going to be doing a bit of fisking on Piketty's book. I think I can manage it if I write while I read. Absent that, somebody would have to pay me for the necessary time and then I would put out a much better product. Since the likelihood of manna from heaven is slight, I'm just going to have to risk critiquing as I go along and retracting/correcting if later chapters fill the gaps and errors I spot.

Vacation Buffer Building Countdown 3.16.14

I'm going to Disney World and part of getting ready for this family vacation is setting up a blogging buffer. I've never been particularly good at that so I thought I'd write about it and see if that helps building it up.

Blogs I write on with their respective daily posting goals

Flit-TM - 9
Citizen Intelligence - 1
Chicago Boyz - 0

That's a dozen posts a day. We're driving down starting Saturday and will be arriving back home the next Sunday. That's 9 days where it will be difficult to keep up with my schedule. That would make the full buffer needed being 90 posts, 81 for Flit-TM and 9 for Citizen Intelligence.

Current buffer count with posts left to write today:

Flit-TM - X:X
Citizen Intelligence - X:X
Chicago Boyz - 0

With 12 days to go until that first travel day that makes the adjusted daily goals:

Flit-TM - XX <- not good, up 2 from yesterday
Citizen Intelligence - X
Chicago Boyz - 0

This should be fun. Of course, a daily post working out the buffer struggle doesn't hurt.

Update: this is a blown post. my buffers were gone at this point and I didn't fill in the blanks when this auto-post fired. 

Vacation Buffer Building Countdown 3.15.14

I'm going to Disney World and part of getting ready for this family vacation is setting up a blogging buffer. I've never been particularly good at that so I thought I'd write about it and see if that helps building it up.

Blogs I write on with their respective daily posting goals

Flit-TM - 11
Citizen Intelligence - 1
Chicago Boyz - 0

That's a dozen posts a day. We're driving down starting Saturday and will be arriving back home the next Sunday. That's 9 days where it will be difficult to keep up with my schedule. That would make the full buffer needed being 108 posts, 99 for Flit-TM and 9 for Citizen Intelligence.

Current buffer count with posts left to write today:

Flit-TM - 4:5
Citizen Intelligence - 1:0
Chicago Boyz - 0

With 13 days to go until that first travel day that makes the adjusted daily goals:

Flit-TM - 18
Citizen Intelligence - 2
Chicago Boyz - 0

This should be fun. Of course, a daily post working out the buffer struggle doesn't hurt. 

Vacation Buffer Building Countdown 3.14.14

I'm going to Disney World and part of getting ready for this family vacation is setting up a blogging buffer. I've never been particularly good at that so I thought I'd write about it and see if that helps building it up.

Blogs I write on with their respective daily posting goals

Flit-TM - 11
Citizen Intelligence - 1
Chicago Boyz - 0

That's a dozen posts a day. We're driving down starting Saturday and will be arriving back home the next Sunday. That's 9 days where it will be difficult to keep up with my schedule. That would make the full buffer needed being 108 posts, 99 for Flit-TM and 9 for Citizen Intelligence.

Current buffer count with posts left to write today:

Flit-TM - 1:7
Citizen Intelligence - 0:0
Chicago Boyz - 0

With 14 days to go until that first travel day that makes the adjusted daily goals:

Flit-TM - 19
Citizen Intelligence - 2
Chicago Boyz - 0

This should be fun. Of course, a daily post working out the buffer struggle doesn't hurt.