Richard Thaler, Nudge, Nobel Prize

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Richard Thaler Yes, professor from University of Chicago, won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Most people know him for writing the 2008 best-seller Nudge (affiliate link) with Cass Sunstein. Super enjoyed the book and was...

Beware of false equivalence

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Check the quality of the fruit When you are buying a banana at the grocery store, do you blindly pick up anything?  No way. A green banana and yellow banana means something completely different. Depending on your taste preference, when you plan to eat it, and you want...

What makes powerful people act stupid?

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Hubris That could easily be the sub-title of a book by Stanford Professor Bob Sutton called Good Boss, Bad Boss (affiliate link). He gives a talk at Stanford Business School here. Prior to this, this he wrote a best-selling book called: The No Asshole Rule (affiliate...