Reading Feed (November 2017)
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Blog: Slate Star Codex | Book Review: Inadequate Equilibria
Blog: American Affairs | The Western Elite from a Chinese Perspective — "One class was about strategy. It focused on how corporate mottos and logos could inspire employees. Many of the students had worked for nonprofits or health care or tech companies, all of which had mottos about changing the world, saving lives, saving the planet, etc. The professor seemed to like these mottos. I told him that at Goldman our motto was “be long-term greedy.” The professor couldn’t understand this motto or why it was inspiring. I explained to him that everyone else in the market was short-term greedy and, as a result, we took all their money. Since traders like money, this was inspiring. He asked if perhaps there was another motto or logo that my other classmates might connect with. I told him about the black swan I kept on my desk as a reminder that low probability events happen with high frequency. He didn’t like that motto either and decided to call on another student, who had worked at Pfizer. Their motto was “all people deserve to live healthy lives.” The professor thought this was much better. I didn’t understand how it would motivate employees, but this was exactly why I had come to Stanford: to learn the key lessons of interpersonal communication and leadership."
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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | You Have the Right to Think
Blog: MeyerWeb | Generating Wireframe Boxes with CSS and HTML5
Blog: Slate Star Codex | A Completely Accurate Map with No Distortion at All
Blog: EconLog | Central banks should have listened to Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Blog: Overcoming Bias | Why Be Contrarian?
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Blog: Slate Star Codex | Contra Robinson on Public Food
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Blog: Thing of Things | Creating Welfare Biology: A Research Proposal
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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | The Darwin Game — "In college I once took a class called Rational Choice. Because obviously. Each week we got the rules for, played and discussed a game. It was awesome. For the grand finale, and to determine the winner of the prestigious Golden Shark Award for best overall performance, we submitted computer program architectures (we’d tell the professor what our program did, within reason, and he’d code it for us) to play The Darwin Game."
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Blog: Slate Star Codex | Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different from Ours — cf. Slate Star Codex | List of Passages I Highlighted in My Copy of Legal Systems Very Different from Ours
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Blog: Things of Interest | What makes a Unicode code point safe?
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Blog: Slate Star Codex | Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
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Blog: Schneier on Security | Me on the Equifax Breach
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Blog: Slate Star Codex | Concept-Shaped Holes Can Be Impossible to Notice
Blog: The Unit of Caring | I think a big part of how I see the world is that...
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Blog: Marginal Revolution | Supply and Demand — "One way to think about it is that the enormous increase in wealth generated by the tech boom is largely captured by homeowners in the urban core who bought before the boom." / "The second negative consequence of the region’s restrictive housing policies in the urban core is environmental degradation on the periphery. Good environmental stewardship suggests that we should build more in the urban core near transit and jobs and less on the fringes. Yet because of cities’ strict housing regulations, we build more on farmland on the region’s outskirts and less in the city center where demand is higher." / "It’s economics 101 not rocket science but few people have an interest in denying the truths of rocket science."
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Blog: Don't Worry About the Vase | Zeroing Out
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Blog: Compass Rose | Nightmare of the Perfectly Principled
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