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Comment · 6 years ago
How do I make money? - Get lucky in a Casino.

How do I not lose money? - Don’t gamble.

How do I not not make money? - Take more risks.

A true inversion with a negative works better than the not-not structure, and it is easier to wrap your head around.

Comment · 6 years ago
No. No correlation.
Comment · 6 years ago
Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History - Good on a cloudy day

Methodically Processing Systems - Good for a quirky evening (I make this one)

Econtalk - Good for commuting.

BBC’s In Our Time - Good during a shower.

Comment · 6 years ago
At the cellular level it’s a numbers game. The more enemy combatants, the sicker you will be. The more exposure to the virus, the more viruses you’ll have in your body, the more intense the symptoms.

Hospitals don’t have great access to fresh flowing outside air. So as they fill up with infected people the air just becomes a cesspool of virus.

Comment · 6 years ago
It’s a good recipe for making a lot of estimation errors. Worse, it will leave you feeling more confident than you should be. Then, when you least expect it, it’ll blow up in your face.
Comment · 6 years ago
This sounds more like diet marketing. People have such varying success with different diets that one set of foods simply cannot fit all.

Exercise is a different story. The most likely to bring about the improvements you describe.

Comment · 6 years ago
I think it’s better to know it in your bones and then go back and formalize it with theory and terminology.
Comment · 6 years ago
Put down the books and websites and articles. Write music.
Comment · 7 years ago
What does his personality have to do with what he is arguing? Is he using “bad statistical” arguments or not?
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
It's easy to analyze in a frictionless vacuum.
Comment · 10 years ago
The question is, can you effectively replace a meeting to discuss the nature of life and existence with a meeting to discuss games and movie fandoms?

Or does that deeper topic interplay with meeting and socializing with people?

Comment · 10 years ago
Shameless plug, since I recently wrote it: https://medium.com/the-craftsman/the-whoa-how-did-you-do-tha...

Basically, don't forget the human in human computer interaction/UI/UX. It's very easy to come out of the academic perspective on UI/UX design designing exclusively to efficiency formulas and words in a glossary. Keep the user, the human, and their context in mind.

Comment · 10 years ago
I'm curious, why would you recommend Piketty's Capital for 21st Century as the one economics book?

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