Return of the oppressed “The US, in short, was in a revolutionary situation, and many among the political and business elites realised it. They began to push through a remarkable series of reforms. In 1921 and 1924, Congress passed legislation that effectively shut down immigration into the US. Although much of the motivation behind these […]
How ‘competitiveness’ became one of the great unquestioned virtues of contemporary culture “Competitiveness is an interesting concept, and an interesting principle on which to base social and economic institutions. When we view situations as ‘competitions’, we are assuming that participants have some vaguely equal opportunity at the outset. But we are also assuming that they […]
Trump: Tribune Of Poor White People “But I think this unwillingness to deal with tough issues–or worse, to pretend they’ll all go away if we can hit 4 percent growth targets–is a significant failure of modern conservative politics. And looking at the political landscape, this failure may very well have destroyed the conservative movement as […]
Ten Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer “I’ve tried to boil down negotiation to ten rules. The rules, in order of appearance, are: Get everything in writing Always keep the door open Information is power Always be positive Don’t be the decision maker Have alternatives Proclaim reasons for everything Understand what they value Be motivated […]
I’m With The Banned “What’s happening to this country has happened before, in other nations, in other anxious, violent times when all the old certainties peeled away and maniacs took the wheel. It’s what happens when weaponised insincerity is applied to structured ignorance. Donald Trump is the Gordon Gekko of the attention economy, but even […]
When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism “So authoritarians are not being selfish. They are not trying to protect their wallets or even their families. They are trying to protect their group or society. Some authoritarians see their race or bloodline as the thing to be protected, and these people make up the deeply racist subset […]
Turning your anxiety into excitement from: July 13, 2016 at 01:31PM
Where machines could replace humans—and where they can’t (yet) “The hardest activities to automate with currently available technologies are those that involve managing and developing people (9 percent automation potential) or that apply expertise to decision making, planning, or creative work (18 percent).”
Thoughts on the use of Models in Economics from: July 13, 2016 at 10:51AM
What An Hour Of Emotion Makes Visible from: July 13, 2016 at 09:30AM
The secret to success: take risks, work hard, and get lucky from: July 5, 2016 at 06:39PM
Sweden faces housing crunch despite government building plan “In January, the government sat down with the centre-right opposition, hoping to reach an agreement on how to increase building. But the centre-left – wanting more state funded rental accommodation – clashed with the centre-right, which wants more deregulatory measures to encourage private construction.”
This Is How To Easily Improve Your Body Language: 4 Proven Secrets from: July 3, 2016 at 07:36AM
Pynchon’s Mrs. Dalloway “I have no way of knowing whether Pynchon has ever read Virginia Woolf, but it seems clear that both chose a similar problem and found a similar solution. Each experienced, as everyone does sooner or later, the great unanswerable questions that only get asked in solitude and silence, when the fuss and […]
Personality Can Change Over A Lifetime, And Usually For The Better from: July 2, 2016 at 09:02AM
Researchers Examine Family Income And Children’s Non-Cognitive Skills from: July 2, 2016 at 09:00AM
Two Ships Passing in the Night: The Alva Noë and Gabrielle Starr Debate from: July 1, 2016 at 12:20AM
The true meaning of the match is clearest on the face of the diehard fan “Sivan – which, according to its Israeli director Zohar Elefant, was created as a ‘tongue-in-cheek answer to Zidane, the 2006 documentary that followed the soccer star through a single game’ – puts fandom under close inspection, chronicling the emotional volcano […]
Deontology Or Trustworthiness? A Conversation Between Molly Crockett, Daniel Kahneman “What the work suggests is that we infer how trustworthy someone is going to be by observing the kinds of judgments and decisions that they make. If I’m interacting with you, I can’t get inside your head. I don’t know what your utility function looks […]
Gender is not a spectrum So defining transgender people as those who at birth were not assigned the correct place on the gender spectrum has the implication that every single one of us is transgender; there are no cisgender people. The logical conclusion of all this is: if gender is a spectrum, not a binary, […]