The Art and Science of Spending Money · Collab Fund
collabfund.com/blog/the-art-and-science-of-spending-money/Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once nearly died of a heart attack.
40 Useful Concepts You Should Know - by Gurwinder
gurwinder.substack.com/p/40-useful-concepts-you-should-knowIdeas to help you make sense of the world
The McNamara Fallacy – measurement is not understanding
mcnamarafallacy.com/In another case of military metrics gone wrong, the US military reported success in undermining Taliban financing after it paid Afghan farmers to destroy their crops of opium poppies. What went unreported, however, was that the farmers planted larger fields of opium poppies in response, in the hopes that they might be paid by the US military to destroy the crops again. When US payments didn’t come through, the opium was harvested and entered the international drug trade. Much of the ...
The Wrong Side of Right - Farnam Street
fs.blog/wrong-side-right/Are you on the wrong side of being right? One of the biggest mistakes I've ever made was trying to be right. This mistake holds you back ...
Extreme poverty isn’t natural, it’s created — Jason Hickel
jasonhickel.org/blog/2021/3/28/extreme-poverty-isnt-natural-it-is-createdNew research questions the dominant narrative about long-term poverty trends.
Can You Get Coronavirus Inside a Restaurant? - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/11/can-you-get-coronavirus-inside-restaurant/617151/The risk of catching the coronavirus is much higher indoors.
The Tyranny of Metrics by Jerry Z. Muller
goodreads.com/book/show/36644895-the-tyranny-of-metricsThe Tyranny of Metrics book. Read 120 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. How the obsession with quantifying human performance threat...
TheirTube
their.tube/Theirtube is a Youtube filter bubble simulator that provides a look into how videos are recommended on other people's YouTube.
Inclusion Doesn’t Stop at Accessibility | Adobe Blog
theblog.adobe.com/inclusion-doesnt-stop-accessibility/To talk about inclusion is to begin a sentence in the middle. The word 'inclusion' is a response to the observation that exclusion is happening. Inclusion is a great and ...
Free Yourself of Your Harshest Critic, and Plow Ahead - The New York Times
nytimes.com/2017/06/13/your-money/free-yourself-of-your-harshest-critic-and-plow-ahead.htmlYou’re too close to your work to be a decent judge of it. So cut the paralyzing self-criticism and instead pour that energy into doing what you do.
guest post: artificial intelligence discovers gayface. sigh. – scatterplot
scatter.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/guest-post-artificial-intelligence-discovers-gayface-sigh/The following is a guest post by Greggor Mattson. AI Can’t Tell if You’re Gay… But it Can Tell if You’re a Walking Stereotype. [First published September 9th. This post has been updated with subsequent information, denoted by square brackets, cited on this resource of responses to the story by tweeters, bloggers, media, and Kosinski himself].…