“If any of you go running or ride a bike, you’ll know that when you’re running of bicycling into the wind, you’re very aware of it. You just can’t wait till the course turns around and you’ve got the wind…
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Book Report: Success and Luck
Tagged with: Amos Tversky, behavioural economics, Branko Milanovic, Charlie Munger, David Brooks, E.B. White, economics, Italo Calvino, luck, meritocracy, Napolean Bonaparte, Robert H. Frank, success, Success and Luck, taxes, The Improbability Principle, Tom Gilovich, wealth gap
Posted in Books, Leadership, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Leadership, Math and Science
Book Report: What Should We Be Worried About
“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…
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: The Improbability Principle
“The Improbability Principle is not a single equation, such as Einstein’s famous E = mc², but a collection of strands which intertwine, braiding together and amplifying each other, to form a rope connecting events, incidents, and outcomes. The main strands…
Tagged with: Amos Tversky, birthday problem, Carl Sagan, Cauchy distribution, coincidences, Daniel Kahneman, David J Hand, Edward Lorenz, Guassian distribution, John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Mlodinow, Marshall McLuhan, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, probabilities, The Big Bang Theory, The Black Swan, The Drunkard's Walk, The Improbability Principle
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
