Sterling Terrell

recovering economist

Career Record

Career Record

If you are a musical artist, I hope that you keep going until you record and release your “career record” one day.

For bloggers in might be that one post that finally changes everything.

For Anthony Bourdain, it was having an article of his published in The New Yorker.

Michael Hyatt points to back-links from LifeHacker.com as his inflection point.

And for Katy Perry, it was her 2008 album.

Released at the end of April 2008 as the album’s lead single, “I Kissed a Girl” went to number one and spent seven weeks at the top; it also topped the charts in the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, and Australia. (The second single, another Max Martin and Dr. Luke song called “Hot n Cold,” was also a big hit.) As he had done for Britney Spears with “. . . Baby One More Time,” and for Kelly Clarkson with “Since U Been Gone,” Max Martin wrote Katy Perry’s “career record”—the song that made her a star.

-John Seabrook, The Song Machine

This Causes Ulcers

This Causes Ulcers

I had no idea that this causes ulcers.

Stomach ulcers are nothing but the result of:  A bacterial infection.

Well, I had no idea.

Learn something new every day – or something like that.

But just five days after he gulped down the H. pylori, Marshall began having vomiting attacks. Hallelujah! After ten days, he had another biopsy taken of his stomach, “and the bacteria were everywhere.” Marshall already had gastritis and was apparently well on his way to getting an ulcer. He took an antibiotic to help wipe it out. His and Warren’s investigation had proved that H. pylori was the true cause of ulcers—and, as further investigation would show, of stomach cancer as well. It was an astonishing breakthrough.

–Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, Think Like A Freak

Sterling Terrell