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Work on these things - Marginal REVOLUTION

Seriously. In part that’s because the economics of the twentieth century was overwhelmingly about how best to share existing “pies” of human well-being, rather than how

Philip Auerswald • The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy

But in a power law world, you can’t afford not to think hard about where your actions will fall on the curve.

Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One

Economics in One Less - Henry Hazlitt

He had also been working out a new theory of economics that attempted to push back against the worst dehumanizing effects of industrialization.

Cal Newport • Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World

Power-law — “A functional relationship between two quantities, where a relative change in one quantity results in a proportional relative change in the other quantity, independent of the initial size of those quantities: one quantity varies as a power of another.” (related: Pareto distribution; Pareto principle — “for many events, roughly 80% of th

Gabriel Weinberg • Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful

“What is one mainstream or consensus view that you wholeheartedly agree with?”

Tyler Cowen • Talent: How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World

In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social st... See more

archive.ph • Tyler Cowen, the Man Who Wants to Know Everything

The Power Law of Distribution