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While a tad oversimplified, Charlie Munger’s famous one-liner is sort of like the Occam’s Razor of human behavior – especially at scale. People are generally far more driven by self-interest than by any other factor.
Chris Rempel • Part 2: creating the new frontier – Chris Rempel's Blog
We overvalue what we own and what we might lose
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Women remained unaffected by the color, possibly because they tend to shop in a more focused and systematic way than men.
Dr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
After a certain point, the only people still playing the conspicuous consumption game will be those for whom it is still a useful signal—lower socioeconomic groups, people in developing countries—and those who don't have other dimensions on which they're able to compete. In other words, it will quite literally be a poor man's game.
Richard Meadows • Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
We are in the age of hyper-competition. Being a big spender is a seductive way to make you feel like you belong.
Invest like the Best • Gabriel Leydon - Designing Digital Economies - Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
William Poundstone comments in Priceless: The Psychology of Hidden Value: