{"id":1665,"date":"2012-09-21T00:15:46","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T08:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/links-9-20-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-09-21T00:15:46","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T08:15:46","slug":"links-9-20-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/links-9-20-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Links: 9-20-2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/davidsimon.com\/mitt-romney-paid-13-percent-in-taxes-and-hes-proud-of-it-part-ii\/\">David Simon | Mitt Romney paid taxes at a rate of 13 percent and he&rsquo;s proud to say so. Redux.<\/a><br \/>      Quote: &quot;As he believes first and foremost in Mitt Romney and his ambitions, he can&rsquo;t conceive that others can conjure anything larger than themselves or their possible personal gain. &nbsp;Here and now, he is laid bare by his own cynical critique of others who will not follow him in selfishness. &nbsp;It is not that Mr. Romney is merely unfit to serve us as president. &nbsp;Based on this latest revelation, it may go much deeper. &nbsp;If he believes what he told that group in private, he may well be unfit to serve us as a fellow citizen.&quot;  <br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/politics\">politics<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/taxes\">taxes<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/politics\/2012\/10\/michael-lewis-profile-barack-obama\">Michael Lewis: Obama&rsquo;s Way | Vanity Fair<\/a><br \/>      You also need to remove from your life the day-to-day problems that absorb most people for meaningful parts of their day. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll see I wear only gray or blue suits,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m trying to pare down decisions. I don&rsquo;t want to make decisions about what I&rsquo;m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.&rdquo; He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one&rsquo;s ability to make further decisions. It&rsquo;s why shopping is so exhausting. &ldquo;You need to focus your decision-making energy. You need to routinize yourself. You can&rsquo;t be going through the day distracted by trivia.&rdquo;<br \/>    (categories:  <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/decision-making\">decision-making<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/mental-hacks\">mental-hacks<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/culture\">culture<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ajohnson1200\/brain\">brain<\/a> )\n<p\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Simon | Mitt Romney paid taxes at a rate of 13 percent and he&rsquo;s proud to say so. Redux. Quote: &quot;As he believes first and foremost in Mitt Romney and his ambitions, he can&rsquo;t conceive that others can conjure anything larger than themselves or their possible personal gain. &nbsp;Here and now, he is laid &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/21\/links-9-20-2012\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links: 9-20-2012<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cephas.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}