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How do I make money? - Get lucky in a Casino. How do I not lose money? - Don’t gamble. How do I not not make money? - Take more risks. A true inversion with a negative works better…

No. No correlation.

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History - Good on a cloudy day Methodically Processing Systems - Good for a quirky evening (I make this one) Econtalk - Good for commuting. BBC’s In Our Time …

At the cellular level it’s a numbers game. The more enemy combatants, the sicker you will be. The more exposure to the virus, the more viruses you’ll have in your body, the more in…

It’s a good recipe for making a lot of estimation errors. Worse, it will leave you feeling more confident than you should be. Then, when you least expect it, it’ll blow up in your …

This sounds more like diet marketing. People have such varying success with different diets that one set of foods simply cannot fit all. Exercise is a different story. The most lik…

I think it’s better to know it in your bones and then go back and formalize it with theory and terminology.

Put down the books and websites and articles. Write music.

What does his personality have to do with what he is arguing? Is he using “bad statistical” arguments or not?

Shameless plug, I made a short podcast episode about this, from a systems perspective. It looks at what it takes to clean your teeth...and how systems have a tendency to spiral out…

It's easy to analyze in a frictionless vacuum.

The question is, can you effectively replace a meeting to discuss the nature of life and existence with a meeting to discuss games and movie fandoms? Or does that deeper topic inte…

Shameless plug, since I recently wrote it: https://medium.com/the-craftsman/the-whoa-how-did-you-do-tha... Basically, don't forget the human in human computer interaction/UI/UX. It…

I'm curious, why would you recommend Piketty's Capital for 21st Century as the one economics book?

I have a feeling the pencil will be around after this is no more.

Just because someone is proclaimed "expert" doesn't mean they are good at what they do. This is especially true for the softer fields that Gladwell writes in. At the end of the day…

Think about it this way: Suppose my theory is that a fair coin is not actually fair but always lands on heads. If I flip a coin one million times and only publish the ~500,000 resu…

This area is not exactly renowned for being a hard, mechanically measurable science, so you will get many different answers as to whether this is a problem at all or not. The wises…

Why do you save money?

Eli Schiff, whilst pointing out potentially valid concerns about minimalist designs, is also himself with his articles a symptom of a much larger Soviet-style centralist attitude t…

Without trying to make any predictions, I wouldn't underestimate the human appeal of a conversational interface on the basis of its quantifiable inefficiencies. The author applies …

Disruption as a concept seems to be a bit of an empirical controversy these days. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-05/did-clay-c...

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