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All this does not mean that unions can serve no useful or legitimate function. The central function they can serve is to improve local working conditions and to assure that all of their members get the true market value of their services.
Henry Hazlitt • Economics in One Lesson: The Shortest and Surest Way to Understand Basic Economics
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.
Tony calls Mind Mapping a “Swiss Army Knife for the brain.” It is not only a method for expanding your memory, but a way to improve your thinking skills. Mind Mapping can be used for memorizing, learning, presenting, communicating,
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
All it takes, in essence, is to ask yourself the same questions that Holmes poses as a matter of course. Is something superfluous to the matter at hand influencing my judgment at any given point? (The answer will almost always be yes.) If so, how do I adjust my perception accordingly? What has influenced my first impression—and has that first
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Experimentation began anew after the war. Amphibious landing ships were recycled as “roll on–roll off” vessels to transport trucks along the coast, improving on techniques originally developed to land troops and tanks in over-the-beach invasions.
Marc Levinson • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger - Second Edition with a new chapter by the author
Art in Memory Interest level is measured by how much you remember.
Kevin Horsley • Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive
America is, implicitly or explicitly, making a bet that whoever wins intelligence, in the form of AI, wins the future.
China is making a different bet: that for intelligence to truly matter, it needs energy and action.
If you control energy and action, making intelligence abundant strengthens your position.
Packy McCormick • The Electric Slide
meet up creation flow that read “I pledge to create real, face-to-face community.” Andres was skeptical. Sure, it might keep out the spammers, but the golden rule of designing sign-up flows is that you don’t add anything unnecessary, because every additional step introduces greater inhibiting pressure and thus lowers the behavior that is
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So what we do is recognize that the levels of risk premium, growth expectations, and inflation expectations are unknowable AND more importantly if known they are not useful to begin with as they are coincident valuation metrics. None of these factors are predictive of future returns.