When, as a teenager, I first became a Yankees fan I didn’t like him much. But now, I see that a good deal of why I love the Yankees had directly to do with him. For all that he did to make the Yankees the greatest, on the field and in business, I am grateful. I will miss seeing him watch the Yankees play.

/via TPM

Countries that didn’t have a middle class 20 years ago have seen a rapid transformation from an agricultural economy to an industrial based economy so much so that a sizable percentage of the population now belongs to the middle class.

Martin Adolfsson, Katameya Residence, Cairo

Puzzles, anchors, stars, and plowhorses; those are a few of the terms consultants now use when assembling a menu (which is as much an advertisement as anything else). “A star is a popular, high-profit item–in other words, an item for which customers are willing to pay a good deal more than it costs to make,” Poundstone explains. “A puzzle is high-profit but unpopular; a plowhorse is the opposite, popular yet unprofitable. Consultants try to turn puzzles into stars, nudge customers away from plowhorses, and convince everyone that the prices on the menu are more reasonable than they look.”

Schwarzenegger has a mixed record by my accounting, but this is a spot-on assessment of the situation.

[Via TechCrunch]

I wonder what or whom “notable shaper” is a euphemism for?

[Via Monoscope]