How many Facebook friends does a man need?

As any regular reader of this blog knows, I’ve been obsessed lately with the social networking site Facebook. This obsession was mainly in the service of journalism, and now that I’ve written my Time column on the subject I probably ought to move on. But now I’m being faced with the fundamental question that eventually [...]

The disappointing rewards to college education in the game of Life

In previous playings I had been appalled at how little payoff there seemed to be to attending college, but I almost always chose to anyway. Wanted to be a good example to Curious Capitalist Jr., I guess. Anyway, it turned out I had failed to read the part in the rules where it says college [...]