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Seminars About Long Term Thinking

Sunday, December 2, 2007

I’ve mentioned this before, but these lectures are just SO GOOD I think it worth repeating. http://www.longnow.org/projects/seminars/ And check out what’s coming up. 02007 Dec. 14 (Friday) – Jon Ippolito & Joline Blais, “The Edge of Art” 02008 Jan. 11 (Friday) – Paul Saffo, “Embracing Uncertainty: the secret to effective forecasting” Feb. 4 (MONDAY) – [...]

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Bloomberg: CPI Inflation Data is a “Lie”

Sunday, October 14, 2007

We have long railed against the absurdity of the CPI data. The ridiculous adjustments, the lack of correlation between CPI prices and reality… More

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A SHORT COURSE IN THINKING ABOUT THINKING

Sunday, October 14, 2007

A “Master Class” By Danny Kahneman Danny Kahneman along with Amos Tversky won the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics for their discovery of behavioral economics. I learned about them through reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s “Fooled By Randomness” and then Daniel Gilbert’s “Stumbling on Happiness” I’ve become very interested in cognitive biases- as I understand them, [...]

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