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companies have a strong incentive to exploit behavioral biases, including availability, unrealistic optimism, and anchoring.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
“the three bounds”: bounded rationality, bounded willpower, and bounded self-interest.
Richard H. Thaler • Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
Behavioral economics is demonstrating that humans don’t always act in self-interested ways, and that transactions themselves have an emotional component.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
there is one group of people that is truly useful to everyone else—those people eager to earn more money.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
Well I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it. And never a year passes, but I get some surprise that pushes my limit a little farther.
Charlie Munger • “The Psychology of Human Misjudgment”
“Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much” (2013) by Mullainathan and Shafir. They investigate how the experience of scarcity has cognitive effects and causes
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
A stunning essay in the FT on the international decline in the ability to read, reason, focus, and learn new things.
It began or accelerated in the early 2010s.
It's hitting teens AND adults.
Self-report and objective scores.
by @jburnmurdoch... See more