Jolyon Ticer-Wurr:
CLASS OF 1977
Fremont High SchoolClass of 1977
Sunnyvale, CA
Jolyon's Story
Jolyon's schools include Fremont High School.
Movies Jolyon likes include Unbroken Glass.
One of Jolyon's favorite quotes is:"I don't really have many "favorites" in any realm but Here are some things I like:
"Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."
Here's Michael Phillips and Jacqueline Bisset (understand this and you'll understand something of me): "she nearly didnât get [a part] because the creative team misÂtook her character inquiries for relucÂtance: âIâm English. I donât gush. At least not on demand.â
This is an excerpt from Paul Krugman's 2009 essay "The Fall and Rise of Development Economics."
"The problem is that there is no alternative to models. We all think in simplified models, all the time. The sophisticated thing to do is not to pretend to stop, but to be self-conscious â to be awar...Expand for more
e that your models are maps rather than reality.
There are many intelligent writers on economics who are able to convince themselves â and sometimes large numbers of other people as well â that they have found a way to transcend the narrowing effect of model-building. Invariably they are fooling themselves. If you look at the writing of anyone who claims to be able to write about social issues without stooping to restrictive modeling, you will find that his insights are based essentially on the use of metaphor. And metaphor is, of course, a kind of heuristic modeling technique.
In fact, we are all builders and purveyors of unrealistic simplifications. Some of us are self-aware: we use our models as metaphors. Others, including people who are indisputably brilliant and seemingly sophisticated, are sleepwalkers: they unconsciously use metaphors as models."".
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