New Blog from NYC

Since my wife and I have just moved from San Francisco to NYC, I thought I would start a blog.

I like well run organizations and improving systems.  I figured this would be a good outlet to talk about potential improvements that I see in anything I happen to see during the day whether it be the taxi riding experience, or executive transparency at a company.  I like economics, game theory, history, and technically geekiness (my career), and I'm looking for a way to combine all of them.

I named this blog Asymmetric Information because there is a lot of things I don't know but still have opinions about.  That and I wanted to drop an game theory term that I learned back in undergrad.  A lot of the worries that my wife and I have are usually because of uncertainty.  Most recently we moved, and the procedure of finding an apartment in NY is frankly one of the more stressful and uncertain things I've ever done (we're probably a bit sheltered in that respect).  I'll write a whole post about it, but suffice to say lack of knowledge of this process and potential for fraud sucks.  If other people suffer from this "fear of uncertainty" the same as we do, perhaps it can be fixed.

Since a lot of the thoughts I'm planning on having in this blog are new, many of them will only be half thought out.  This blog is not in any intended to be any kind of political platform, rant, call to revolution, or anything else like that.  Instead, it is intended to be an evolving opinion that might produce something that someone somewhere will find useful, and possibly act as a springboard for more thought.  If people want to leave comments, I'll welcome them as long as they are constructive.  Even if they are half thoughts, at least this will have a bit of a "brainstorm" effect and hopefully something positive can come from it.  Here we go..