Fairness > equality from: April 13, 2017 at 07:41AM
The Case Of The Suffocating Woman from: April 6, 2017 at 05:18PM
Living and Loving Through Loss: Beautiful Letters of Consolation from Great Artists, Writers, and Scientists from: March 26, 2017 at 07:35PM
Pleasure and the good life from: March 26, 2017 at 04:38PM
How The ‘Scarcity Mindset’ Can Make Problems Worse from: March 24, 2017 at 10:56PM
Complacent or Crazy? Two books on our time “A society that has lost that confidence can easily become a society dissatisfied with an insecure status quo but too risk averse to do anything about it beyond complaining. As Cowen suggests, this may be the biggest of all the risks we face. And as Poulos suggests, […]
Small populations make it harder to do what Nordic countries do “What’s so remarkable about the Nordic countries is that they manage to pull off their systems despite the considerable handicap of small populations and small market sizes. Despite all the pressures being small puts on having lower wages and lower taxes in order to […]
What if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Had Swapped Genders? “A restaging of the presidential debates with an actress playing Trump and an actor playing Clinton yielded surprising results. [..] The simplicity of Trump’s message became easier for people to hear when it was coming from a woman—that was a theme. One person said, “I’m […]
Color in UI Design: A (Practical) Framework “Darker color variations are made by lowering brightness and increasing saturation. Brighter color variations are made by increasing brightness and lowering saturation. […] The important bit is this: if you don’t count saturation and brightness, shifting hue towards red (0°), green (120°), or blue (240°) will decrease the […]
Great Companies Obsess Over Productivity, Not Efficiency “Efficiency is about doing the same with less. […] Productivity is about doing more with the same. […] Inspired employees bring more discretionary energy to their work every day. As a result, they are 125% more productive than an employee who is merely satisfied. Stated differently, one inspired […]
Feel like a loser? “Whether you look at fish or humans, research keeps finding the same thing. When you win, you win more. When you lose, you lose more. Losers don’t just lose more, they don’t even bother to come back to compete again. Winners on the other hand, even if their win was faked […]
Most Utopian Communities Fail. Why? “One aspect of that struggle is that business models for many intentional communities remain elusive, or unformed. Self-sufficiency, for example, often means not taking advantage of economies of scale that can support growing populations. At the same time, many communities are chagrined to find themselves servicing voyeurs and tourists for […]
Twitter, Live, and Luck from: February 27, 2017 at 11:35AM
Defense Against the Dark Arts: Networked Propaganda and Counter-Propaganda “Debunking doesn’t work: provide an alternative narrative. Telling people that something they’ve heard is wrong may be one of the most pointless things you can do. A long series of experiments shows that it rarely changes belief.”
Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds “The Gormans, too, argue that ways of thinking that now seem self-destructive must at some point have been adaptive. And they, too, dedicate many pages to confirmation bias, which, they claim, has a physiological component. They cite research suggesting that people experience genuine pleasure—a rush of dopamine—when processing information […]
The Future of Not Working from: February 25, 2017 at 03:04PM
The Future of Not Working NY Times: “Moreover, cash might force aid workers and nongovernmental organizations to confront the fact that they could be doing better by doing things differently — often by doing less. “It’s easy to muster evidence that you should be giving cash instead of fertilizer,” said Justin Sandefur of the Center […]
How to be a Stoic “The first line of Epictetus’ manual of ethical advice, the Enchiridion—“Some things are in our control and others not”—made me feel that a weight was being lifted off my chest. For Epictetus, the only thing we can totally control, and therefore the only thing we should ever worry about, is […]
Centrism is Dead. Time to Rebuild the Left. “What is required now is broad recognition that centrists cannot resolve our deepening crisis. Structurally, they are too dependent on the Washington party system and its false equivalency. Intellectually, they suffer from a poverty of imagination. Philosophically, they have few core commitments. And temperamentally, they are too […]
The real assimilation dilemma from: February 23, 2017 at 02:26PM