he got game theory.

some of the sexiest kinds of people (to me, at least):

writers
economists
mathematicians

sure designers/artists/musicians/etc ... are hot, but that's sort of unfair given.

I'm not kidding or trying to be "ironical" when I tell you one of the hottest things a boy can do is read, do math, or talk about economics, and by economics, I DO NOT mean how to make money or balance a checkbook. I mean, “asymmetric information,” "Inelastic," "Normative."

Anyhow, do I know what any of those things really mean? Not so much, I get the gist of it all, but I can't sit you down and prepare you for standardized testing, but it I can listen to it, because it many ways it's just a very clean way of explaining what to expect from a person/place/thing, and how and why you expect it.

Anyhow, onto my topic:

Lessons in Love, by Way of Economics
as written by Ben Stein via the NY Times:

High-quality bonds consistently yield more return than junk, and so it is with high-quality love. As for the returns on bonds, I know that my comment will come as a surprise to people who have been brainwashed into thinking that junk bonds are free money. They aren’t. The data from the maven of bond research, W. Braddock Hickman, shows that junk debt outperforms high quality only in rare situations, because of the default risk ...

In general, and with rare exceptions, the returns in love situations are roughly proportional to the amount of time and devotion invested. The amount of love you get from an investment in love is correlated, if only roughly, to the amount of yourself you invest in the relationship.

In love, the data is even clearer. Stay with high-quality human beings. And once you find that you are in a junk relationship, sell immediately. Junk situations can look appealing and seductive, but junk is junk. Be wary of it unless you control the market.

(Or, as I like to tell college students, the absolutely surest way to ruin your life is to have a relationship with someone with many serious problems, and to think that you can change this person.) ...

But so far, these things have always worked themselves out and this one will, too. In the meantime, they say that falling in love is wonderful, and that the best is falling in love with what you have.

this is an appropo song for the moment: