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Read MoreLinear versus Exponential
If I offered you a thousand dollars a day for thirty days, or a penny for the first day but I’ll double it every day for thirty days, which would you take? The former is a linear progression: 1000+1000+1000+1000… and the latter is an exponential progression: .01x2x2x2 . . . At the end of the …
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Read MoreTelling Smaller Lies
People like certainty but we live in an uncertain world. The future is uncertain and therefore it’s scary, so we tell ourselves stories about the future. We know they’re lies, but they’re good lies. They help us set our expectations. We can’t help but lie to ourselves. If we didn’t, if we had to live …
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Read MoreA Culture of Inefficiency
The web site Mental Floss recently reprinted a series of helpful instructions written in Japan for Japanese tourists planning to visit America (http://mentalfloss.com/article/55140/10-japanese-travel-tips-visiting-america). These ten sometimes funny, sometimes confusing bits of advice ends with this: “In Japan, there is great fear of failure and mistakes in front of other people. It is better to do …
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Read MoreIncentivizing the Wrong Things
History is full of examples of institutions incentivizing the wrong things. In 2007, in response to an increase in the population of wild pigs in the area surrounding Fort Benning in Georgia, the US Army sponsored a bounty program, paying local hunters from $25 to $40 per wild pig killed. All a hunter had to …
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