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Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: What makes a song, a book or a movie a hit?
Blog: Barking up the wrong tree: When do we stop being interested in new things? What can this teach us about happiness?
Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup – Class 10 Notes Essay
Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup – Class 10 Notes Essay
“It’s hard; entrepreneurs are congenitally wired to be too early. And being too early is a bigger problem for entrepreneurs than not being correct. It’s very hard to sit and just wait for things to arrive. It almost never works. You burn through your capital. You end up with outdated architecture when the timing is right.”
Stare Down
Stare Down
“Repeated uncontrollable attacks encourage the subordinate to accept his fate and give in to a feeling of learned helplessness. The generalized stress response this creates will then accumulate over successive episodes to make underlings more susceptible to disease and less fertile. Reproductive success plummets, and the will breaks.”
Capitalism—Posner – The Becker-Posner Blog
Capitalism—Posner – The Becker-Posner Blog
” Greenspan and other like-minded economists and political leaders were wrong to think capitalism self-regulating; they neglected the need for an institutional structure, and a culture, that differentiate successful from unsuccessful capitalist economies.”
Twitter: @johnroderick
The Pearsonizing of the American Mind
The Pearsonizing of the American Mind
A Diane Ravitch rant
Twitter: @jlwoj
Blog: Science: The Winning Answer To A Burning Question
Blog: kottke.org: Pixar’s story rules: how to create compelling stories
Blog: Beaneball: Ray Fosse and Scott Hatteberg
Blog: The American Conservative » Rod Dreher: Tram Lines of Left and Right
10 Timeframes | Contents Magazine
10 Timeframes | Contents Magazine
“If we are going to ask people, in the form of our products, in the form of the things we make, to spend their heartbeats—if we are going to ask them to spend their heartbeats on us, on our ideas, how can we be sure, far more sure than we are now, that they spend those heartbeats wisely?”
