Mental Cacophony

I know many people suffer from writer’s block, and, perhaps, one day I will as well. However, my problem is usually not that I cannot think of things to write about, but that I am responding to so much out there I have a hard time narrowing it down. A sample of the lines of thought I was running down on my morning walk:

-the conversion of Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley away from pure investment banks, and whether we should buy some of their stock as a result;

-the fact that carbon nanotubes – see picture below – are coming incredibly close to allowing Japanese scientist to begin construction on a space elevator (and should we find a carbon nanotube manufacturer and buy stock in them?)

-was the awesome day at Disneyland yesterday worth YTP child’s tantrums from exhaustion today?

-how would I revise a historical course on ethno-national terrorism to make it useful for people fighting terrorism in its transnational form today, and wouldn’t that make an interesting article?

-should I blog this morning, return phone calls, or spend an hour deliciously wasting time at jacksonpollock.org?

-what does the fact that people are giving money to a site that admittedly doesn’t need it (instapundit.com) – presumably out of appreciation and gratitude for the excellent job he does – say about the unmet demand for broad spectrum, balanced information, and how would I write about that?

So many ideas. So little time.

Tagged as: Business, Goldman Sachs, Investment Banks, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street