Rob Berger
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Rob Berger
But people respond to meaning . Without a deposit system or a norm campaign, the most effective motivator might be reframing the act itself. Like Blockbuster’s “Be Kind, Rewind,” which turned something that felt like a chore into a small act of kindness and a favor for the next person. Or, drawing from something more serious, the “Friends Don’t Let... See more
Hannah B. Waldfogel • Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation - by Hannah B. Waldfogel - Behavioral Scientist
People act if confronted with the harm non-action might cause.
People respond to social norms . Psychologists distinguish between descriptive norms (what people do) and injunctive norms (what people think they’re supposed to do). When we see carts scattered across a parking lot, the descriptive norm tells us that leaving them is fine. But when we see other people returning their carts, it can feel wrong not... See more
Hannah B. Waldfogel • Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation - by Hannah B. Waldfogel - Behavioral Scientist
We behave based on how we think we should behave.
People respond to incentives . At Aldi, for example, you can’t take a cart without first inserting a quarter. When you’re done, you return the cart and get your quarter back. According to Aldi, this system saves customers money: By eliminating the need to pay employees to collect stray carts, Aldi can keep their prices low. (This kind of deposit... See more
Why Don’t People Return Their Shopping Carts? A (Somewhat) Scientific Investigation - by Hannah B. Waldfogel - Behavioral Scientist
Incentives drive behavior.
Empowering Financial Advisers and Financial Planning Firms
timeline.coA financial planning tool I learned about from ChatGPT.
Having stuck to Claude Code for the last few months, this post is my set of reflections on Claude Code’s entire ecosystem. We’ll cover nearly every feature I use (and, just as importantly, the ones I don’t), from the foundational CLAUDE.md file and custom slash commands to the powerful world of Subagents, Hooks, and GitHub Actions. This post ended... See more
A 1.2% increase in GDP growth would be sufficient to put the U.S. economy on fiscally sustainable footing, with no need for increased taxes or decreased spending, while a 2% increase in GDP growth would be unprecedented for the U.S.
~ Boaz Barak • Thoughts by a Non-Economist on AI and Economics
Even a “small” increase to GDP would have a meaningful effect on the U.S. debt.
What Tom Brady’s actually obsessed with, he has said, is trying “to get a little bit better each day.”
I Stopped Caring About Results (And Started Getting Them) - RyanHoliday.net
Progress, however small, is the goal.