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“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.”
George MacDonald
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Consumer Preferences Are Harder to Measure than the Behavioral Economists Think | Per Bylund mises.org/wire/consumer-pref…
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Mises or Marx? In 1989 Marxist economist Robert Heilbroner admitted ”It turns out...that Mises was right”. But to finally settle the issue, it takes a rap battle: youtu.be/QwqnRYPcrl0?fbclid=…
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New, most rigorous-ever reviews of red/processed meat conclude that there's only low/very low-quality evidence to show any negative health outcome. “The guidelines [on meat] are based on papers that...say there's evidence...and there isn’t” says one expert
nytimes.com/2019/09/30/healt…
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Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields.
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Academia doesn't tend to produce skeptics in any field. Each sub-discipline draws mostly those inclined to accept its dogmas. The tenure process and peer review for each publication reinforces orthodoxies in nearly every field. Don't bet you'll find out-of-the-box thinking here.
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Don't just teach your students to read. Teach them to question what they read, what they study. Teach them to doubt. Teach them to think.
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Pretty insane!
Arnav Kapur, @MIT student, can surf the internet with his mind. He silently Googled questions and heard the answers through vibrations transmitted through his skull and into his inner ear.
No more typing, tapping, swiping or speaking. Your mind is UI.
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Effective method of storytelling to visualize the complexities of what’s seems like a very small and mundane action - making a cup of tea! #systemsthinking
This Systems Map of what it takes to make a cup of tea is really my favorite as it reveals the complex set of relations and dependencies behind even our smallest of actions - bit.ly/2KnAKDz
@MetabolicHQ
@Except_NL
@Forum4theFuture
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What are interest rates, where do they come from, and what purpose do they serve? Economist Jeffrey Herbener joins @JeffDeist explains why Turgot, Böhm-Bawerk, and Mises got it right on #HAPod.
mises.org/library/theory-int…
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“Maslow’s pyramid” is based on an elitist misreading of the psychologist’s work. @QuartzAtWork qz.com/work/1588491/
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Join me for a conversation on JTBD + customer mindset, Th 4/18, 10a PST, sponsored by enrich, a curated community for senior leaders at best in class companies.
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Engagement is a toxic metric.
Products which optimize for it become worse. People who optimize for it become less happy.
It also seems to generate runaway feedback loops where most engagable people have a) worst individual experiences and then b) end up driving the product bus.
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The decisions we make all come back to those three things: minimizing effort, minimizing variability, improving results. - medium.com/frameplay/there-a… #product #jtbd #ux #servicedesign
