Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams ISBN:0330301624 (more)

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Decision making is the cognitive process of selecting a course of action from among multiple alternatives. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_making (more)

Peter Diamandis: Bold ISBN:1476709580 from 2015 (more)

book by Jane Jacobs ISBN:0394729110... this 1983 lecture covers a lot of the same ground and uses some of the same examples. Jacobs addresses economics on a regional scale, defining City Region in the sense of a specific area that gives rise to the dynamic exchange of goods, services, and people. She examines the factors essential to establish a sustainable economic entity. The five forces that shape and reshape all regional economies—city markets, city jobs, city technology, transplanted city work, and city capital—interact to create a pattern of exchange between city and hinterland that is complex and diverse. The key to an ongoing healthy economy is the ability of the city to replace imports from beyond the region with local production. (more)

Nick Schulz interviews Robert Fogel on Life Expectancy, Body Height, Evolution, Urbanization, and Knowledge Growth. Life Expectancy appears to have increased pretty steadily from the early 18th century until maybe around 1820. And then it started cycling. We had actual decreases in life expectancy. Before we returned back to a path of increase in life expectancy, beginning in the late 19th century, and from then on it was a pretty steady pattern of increase... The average stature (Body Height) of adult males in Western Europe increased by close to a foot between 1864 and the present. (more)

Intrinsic good (for you? for a Culture?)? (more)

Certification of having completed a College Education. (more)

I use GoogleDrive to sync my MoonReader highlights/etc across my phone and tablet. It hasn't been working lately. (more)

Universal basic income

Martin Cagan: The Product Scorecard. the specific KPI is not the real point here as much as the fact of establishing specific KPI’s, and the fact that they’re prioritized. You can and should debate the specifics of each KPI and its priority, to ensure that you are encouraging the right behavior as you interpret the business strategy. (more)

Six decades ago, Fred Schwed wrote a book called Where Are the Customers' Yachts? The title came from a story about a visitor in New York more than a century ago. After admiring yachts Wall Street bought with money earned giving financial advice to customers, he wondered where the customers' yachts were. Of course, there were none. There is far more money in providing financial advice than there is in receiving financial advice. (more)

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Charlie Warzel: Don’t Go Down the Rabbit Hole. For an academic, Mike Caulfield has an odd request: Stop overthinking what you see online. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid 02/25: Holding Pattern. It was a quiet week, with no big news on the Covid-19 front. There was new vaccine data, same as the old vaccine data – once again, vaccines still work. Once again, there is no rush to approve them or even plan for their distribution once approved. Once again, case numbers and positive test percentages declined, but with the worry that the English Strain will soon reverse this, especially as the extent of the drop was disappointing. The death numbers ended up barely budging after creeping back up later in the week, presumably due to reporting time shifts, but that doesn’t make it good or non-worrisome news. (more)

The Three Languages of Politics. When it was first released in 2013, Arnold Kling’s The Three Languages of Politics was a prescient exploration of political communication, detailing the “three tribal coalitions” that make up America’s political landscape. Progressives, conservatives, and libertarians, he argued, are “like tribes speaking different languages"... The first edition did not make it sufficiently clear that the three‐​axes model is meant to describe political psychology and political communication, rather than to dissect political thought. The second edition clarified that. (more)

Mario Rizzo and Glen Whitman book ISBN:1108760007 (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: CDC Issues New Covid-19 Guidance on Opening Schools. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 2/18: Vaccines Still Work. (more)

Martin Cagan: Empowered Product Teams. Many teams get quite good at the techniques of product discovery, yet are not able to actually apply those techniques and work the way they need to... The issue is that they are often not allowed to work as they need to. Specifically, in so many companies, they are not truly empowered to work as they need to. (more)