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Alex Hemmert • 2 cards
People’s lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.
Robert T. Kiyosaki • Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
The Barona benefits from the ball because any expert who attends must pledge never to play blackjack there—one of the most profitable investments ever by a casino.
Edward O. Thorp • A Man for All Markets
future. One of the main lessons of behavioral economics is that small changes to the environment we live in matter.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Marketing theory says that people are driven by fear, by the promise of exclusivity, by guilt and greed, and by the need for approval. Advertising technology, armed with market research and sophisticated psychology, aims to throw us off balance emotionally—and then promises to resolve our discomfort with a product.
Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez, Monique Tilford • Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence: Fully Revised and Updated for 2018
What matters isn’t what a person has or doesn’t have; it is what he or she is afraid of losing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Compulsive use, in this context, is not the result of a character flaw, but instead the realization of a massively profitable business plan.
Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism
We conform to the reward structure of the technological environment in which we live, always making more accommodations to whichever operating system our technologies—and the billionaires behind them—demand of us.