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Whatever your political views, the ellipses in the quote are deeply misleading, and in fact make his quote seem to say something Joel emphatically did not say. Here is the full quo…

It's hard to imagine a description of Kissinger that is more unfounded and, sorry to say, more ill-informed than this one.

> "there aren't doctors out there recommending cutting out fats and subsisting on sugar" That's true as far as it goes, but the internal fight inside the medical research community…

> "Fat people just need to eat less, and the issue basically comes down to compliance.: On oversimplification, but the crux of the issue. The astronomical failure rate is because o…

> "No dude, you are ignoring the fact that these people did not have ample fat stores." I don't think I am ignoring it. You seem to be asserting that their issues with calorie rest…

Unfortunately I can only summarize. On the starvation study it's merely one example that highlights how calorie restriction affects people. Yes, it's an extreme version, but it is …

"Self-inflict." It's actually a fairly complicated and can be quite difficult for people to break out of, even people who desperately want to change. When people follow the standar…

Start spending some time reading Cal Newport's blog. You still have the problem of deciding which things are important to you, but just immersing yourself in how he approaches focu…

At 52, he had no such notion at all, I can virtually guarantee it. That employment model, predicated on strong unions in most cases, was well on its way to oblivion in the mid 80s,…

It's about combating injustice and miscreant behavior where we find it. You don't act that way. Super. Neither do I. Criticizing the behavior in others (which, make no mistake, is …

Just in case you don't know, you're part of the problem.

This is built on so many bad assumptions. At best the "rules" it's trying to enforce are training-wheel rules, the sorts of rules given to novice writers to help them avoid flabby,…

The one thing this country (I'm speaking here of the US) doesn't have any discernable lack of is massive herds of people who are desperate to make more money. Lots of it. Piles of …

Oh I read it, but since it was confined to programming only, leaving out the vast domain that is the rest of the world, and with the weight of evidence so far is on the other side,…

I see break dancing in your future! Two points 1) That this seems intuitively obvious is precisely what I was referring to in my post. This is a scientific question, to the extent …

But your physical form w/r/t a sport isn't really a matter of controversy since no one thinks a 5'7" person is going to become a basketball great, although it's not totally impossi…

"And while this is somewhat true, it gets the causation backwards. It was obvious to me from a very early age that I was better at sight reading as a singer, so I spent more time d…

The 10,000 hours rule isn't someone's fantasy, it's based on an increasingly large body of evidence, but this article just dismisses the evidence with a wave of the hand and some a…

The author is a her.

Good point. I'll try to add a little qualifier. I would say that sales is definitely a creative task (but you're right that's the important question w/r/t Ariely). There is a rote …

I linked to the video where Ariely talks about the U-shaped effect (that is small rewards increase, but large ones decrease, performance). I mentioned him to demonstrate that there…