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So why aren’t you eating M&Ms right now? This is where my degree in mind reading psychology comes in handy. The reason you’re not is that you’re not sitting next to a giant bowl of M&M’s. How do I know? Because if you were, I can say with a high degree of certainty that you would be eating them. Physical availability is one of the key inhibiting
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.psychology .implementation very key point that the easier to use you make the product and make it readily available the higher the consumption and post rationalisation as to why we should use the product
maths is defined by the techniques it uses to study things,
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the social structure, the most important part of which was the surplus-extraction relationship between the direct producers and the ruling class (Brenner 1985a:10–11).
Peter Turchin, Sergey A. Nefedov • Secular Cycles
pressures. As it started in the black car space, all of its competitors were focused on promoting pressures. It won’t be a black car, it will be a silver Audi with a minibar and a disco ball synced to your playlist, driven by Claudia Schiffer and powered by the defensive line of the Raiders! What Uber recognized is that the desire to go from Point
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.psychology .implementation very important lesson that to sell a very basic product you have to reduce inhibiting pressures.
only shift their focus to what they have written when they fully understand that what they mean is completely irrelevant within the scientific community.
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As a result, we discovered that our approach has worked best when we invested in a relatively large number of stocks, holding onto them for long periods of time.
Edward Chancellor • Capital Returns
.implementation this is very counterintuitive to current philosophy of concentrated bets
Marathon’s private ownership and longstanding client relationships enable the firm to adopt a long-term approach, more tolerant of benchmark deviation, which is necessary to apply capital cycle analysis.
Edward Chancellor • Capital Returns
You insist that there is something a machine cannot do. If you will tell me precisely what it is that a machine cannot do, then I can always make a machine which will do just that!
G. Larry Bretthorst • Probability Theory
How to Create Instant Authority with Your Audience
Marco Polo, a Venetian explorer born in 1254, is famous for being the first to explore the Silk Road to China. At least, that’s how he is remembered.
There is only one small problem: he wasn’t an explorer at all. Like all good Venetians of the time, he was a merchant.
Long before Marco Polo, plenty
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