Leo Guinan
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Leo Guinan
Second, being wrong hurts us more than being right feels good. We know from Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky’s work on loss aversion, part of prospect theory (which won Kahneman the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002), that losses in general feel about two times as bad as wins feel good. So winning $100 at blackjack feels as good to us as losing $50
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Economics of Human Energy and What we value
Happiness makes things easier
"Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer" is actually an excellent and life-affirming attitude
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Human Insurance and
This is incredible
Socrates said that manual laborers make bad friends and bad citizens because they have no time to fulfill the responsibilities of friendship and citizenship.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
“The finest line of poetry ever uttered in the history of this whole damn country was said by Canada Bill Jones in 1853, in Baton Rouge, while he was being robbed blind in a crooked game of faro. George Devol, who was, like Canada Bill, not a man who was averse to fleecing the odd sucker, drew Bill aside and asked him if he couldn't see that the... See more
A quote from American Gods
the era of business poetry begins today.
Business Poetry
long vs short term winning
Interesting take on Google Podcasts shutting down. I'm thinking along similar lines.