“In all sorts of complex systems, this is the general trend: Increasing the coupling between the parts seems harmless enough at first. But then, abruptly, when the coupling crosses a critical value everything changes. The exact nature of the altered state…
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Book Report: What Should We Be Worried About
Tagged with: Adam Alter, Alison Gopnik, Amanda Gefter, Amos Tversky, Andrian Kreye, Antony Garret Lisi, Brian Eno, Brian Knutson, Carlo Rovelli, Dan Sperber, Daniel Kahneman, David Bodanis, Douglas T. Kenrick, Eric R. Weinstein, Evgeny Morozov, Haim Harari, James J. O'Donnell, Karl Sabbagh, Kirsten Bomblies, Leo M. Chalupa, Margaret Levi, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Neil Gershenfeld, Paul Saffo, Peter Schwartz, Randolph Nesse, Roger Highfeld, Satyajit Das, Stephon H. Alexander, Steven Pinker, Steven Strogatz, Tania Lombrozo, Tim O'Reilly, Timo Hannay, Timothy Taylor, worries
Posted in Books, Everything, Finance, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Finance, Math and Science
Book Report: Smart People Should Build Things
“That’s how we give rise to the virtuous cycle of job creation and innovation. We seed an environment with both human capital and financial capital and we engage for years. We make it so that building things is the valued…
Tagged with: AIDS Ride, Andrew Yang, brain drain, Dan Pallotta, economics, entrepreneurship, Great Man Theory, James Kwak, job creation, Kauffman Foundation, Smart People Should Build Things, Stanford Daily, start-ups, TED, Venture for America, Wall Street
Posted in Books, Careers, Finance, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Careers, Finance, Math and Science
Book Report: Flash Boys
“They truly believed that the market at the heart of the world’s largest economy had grown too complex, and was likely to experience some catastrophic failure. But they were also trying to put an end to a game they could…
Tagged with: Flash Boys, Goldman Sachs, greed, Michael Lewis, selfishness, selflessness, Serge Aleynikov, stock markets, Wall Street
Posted in Books, Everything, Finance
Posted in Books, Everything, Finance
Book Report: The Big Short
“The line between gambling and investing is artificial and thin. The soundest investment has the defining trait of a bet (you losing all of your money in hopes of making a bit more), and the wildest speculation has the salient…
Tagged with: analytics, economics, failure, hubris, lessons, Michael Lewis, mistakes, psychopathy
Posted in Books, Finance
Posted in Books, Finance
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