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Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
It occurred to Nishad that the effective altruist’s relationship to money was more than a little bizarre. Basically all of Alameda Research’s employees and investors were committed to giving all their money away to roughly the same charitable causes. You might surmise that they wouldn’t much care who wound up with the money, as it all would go to s
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
I was struck by how the deprivations that people experience can lead to eccentric kinds of compensation—like the hoarding syndrome of some of the poor.
Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
“If you get someone into a context that suits them,” Ogas said, “they’ll more likely work hard and it will look like grit from the outside.”
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The learned psychiatrist had picked, out of all the thousands of stocks, the one that permitted him to lose every penny. The happy ending is that we may all learn something, because he is still writing his book. It will be out next year, and I can hardly wait, since he saved his insight for publication.
Adam Smith • The Money Game
he would have to become a freak of nurture.
Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
It is a humanizing occupation.
Christopher Lloyd • The Well-Tempered Garden: A New Edition Of The Gardening Classic
“Initially it felt like they were playing a game. They were all outliers in terms of their intelligence and the way they approached the world.” Soon enough, he saw that it wasn’t a game. They were all completely and utterly sincere. They judged the morality of any action by its consequences and were living their life to maximize those consequences.