Helaine Olen: A doorman on duty surveys the scene and rolls his eyes. “Another Roubini party,” he mutters. More than a few economists are convinced that Roubini’s call was less a matter of his genius and more about the simple fact that if you forecast a recession often enough, sooner or later you’ll be vindicated. Roubini doesn’t come with an off switch. It isn’t that he can’t sleep, he says. It’s just impossible for him to accomplish everything he wants to in a conventional workday of 8 or 10 or 12 hours.
Two from the archive: Home Depot's first Manhattan store, which opens to the public Friday, will have a doorman.
Homer: Not a bear in sight. The "Bear Patrol" is working like a charm!
Peter Drucker: Futurists always measure their batting average by counting how many things they have predicted that have come true. They never count how many important things come true that they did not predict.
TED: Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius.
Jenny Diski: The only actual experience of sleep is not-knowing. And not knowing thrills me – retrospectively or in anticipation, of course. That one has the capacity to be not here while being nowhere else. To be in the grip of unconsciousness, and consciously to lose consciousness to that grip.
The Prime of Roubini | 
