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The Most Amazing Race: Reverse-Engineering the Brain | Think Tank | Big Think

The Most Amazing Race: Reverse-Engineering the Brain | Think Tank | Big Think

YouTube: Africa For Norway – New charity single out now! Official christmas video

Africa For Norway – New charity single out now! Official christmas video SAIH – Norway

Luck and Skill Untangled: Q&A with Michael Mauboussin | Wired Science | Wired.com

Luck and Skill Untangled: Q&A with Michael Mauboussin | Wired Science | Wired.com “In luck-skill language, if luck is dominant you should place most weight on the base rate, and if skill is dominant then you should place most weight on the individual case.”

Thread: How tech companies grow

Thread: How tech companies grow “All those employees make decisions that tend to keep them employed. That’s how small innovative companies become big incumbent ones.”

Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: What’s Wrong With The Freakin’ Show

What’s Wrong With The Freakin’ Show Rod Dreher, The American Conservative » Rod Dreher

Pynchon – Essays: “Is it OK to be a Luddite?”

Pynchon – Essays: “Is it OK to be a Luddite?” “But we now live, we are told, in the Computer Age. What is the outlook for Luddite sensibility? Will mainframes attract the same hostile attention as knitting frames once did?”

Clayton Christensen: “A Capitalist’s Dilemma”

Clayton Christensen: “A Capitalist’s Dilemma” “The answer is that efficiency innovations are liberating capital, and in the United States this capital is being reinvested into still more efficiency innovations. In contrast, America is generating many fewer empowering innovations than in the past. We need to reset the balance between empowering and efficiency innovations.”

Blog: kottke.org: A soccer ball for everyone

A soccer ball for everyone Jason Kottke, kottke.org

YouTube: Gersberms (Yer Gervin Mah) – HnP ft. HAYLEY WILLIAMS & SWEDISH CHEF

Gersberms (Yer Gervin Mah) – HnP ft. HAYLEY WILLIAMS & SWEDISH CHEF Nerdist

Blog: Barking Up The Wrong Tree: What makes almost everyone happy?

What makes almost everyone happy? Eric Barker, Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Blog: NotGraphs Baseball: Micro-Essay: Wit and Its Relation to Brandon Phillips

Micro-Essay: Wit and Its Relation to Brandon Phillips Carson Cistulli, NotGraphs Baseball

Jobs-To-Be-Done | David Lee

Jobs-To-Be-Done | David Lee Christenson says, “at a fundamental level, the things that people want to accomplish in their lives don’t change quickly.”

Citizens United Not End of the World

Citizens United Not End of the World “The evidence is that money is not as important in determining outcomes of election as people think. Apparently, we aren’t puppets of the rich and powerful who mindlessly follow the plutocrat with the deepest pockets. Apparently, democracy isn’t a total sham.”

Blog: Barking Up The Wrong Tree: What are the two secrets to training like an expert?

What are the two secrets to training like an expert? Eric Barker, Barking Up The Wrong Tree

New like on tumblr: bronxbanter

Liked on Tumblr: bronxbanter

Adam and Eve on the Porch

Adam and Eve on the Porch “But in probing Scripture, particularly the distinct accounts of Adam in Genesis 1 and 2, Soloveitchik articulates a vision of the human which is deeply interesting and deeply relevant to modern man, although the tension precedes modernity; it is a tension of the human per se, and a tension […]

Blog: The Portable Griddle: lareviewofbooks: The puck stops here: In the winter of 1955,…

lareviewofbooks: The puck stops here: In the winter of 1955,… (author unknown), The Portable Griddle

The Real GOP Fiasco: Fairness

The Real GOP Fiasco: Fairness “The GOP can recruit candidates with Hispanic surnames, tone down its platform, prep its members on talking points, and try to duplicate the Obama turnout machine. But if it remains the party of entrenched unfairness, it will never win another national election.”

Blog: xkcd.com: Up Goer Five

Up Goer Five (author unknown), xkcd.com

YouTube: Robert Cialdini Explores the Neuroscience of Influence

Robert Cialdini Explores the Neuroscience of Influence bigthink