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When I tried to post it the video came up as the grey "not found" screen on youtube when it was embedded here, and then when I clicked it the "there has been an error" message was displayed. Not sure why.
edit: just tested and it's working now. Strange. I'll go ahead and blame it on Clementius mis-weave.
@Berenene yes. It is a date then. Where are we goign for steak and drinks?
Daslin said:
Well, there's a place called Gin Palace that specialises in, and serves, you guessed it, whiskey.
@Berenene bb, I don't give it up on the first date... Unless you pump a lot of whiskey in me. :P lol. I'm too tired to be foruming. Have my amusing weird stuff.
Watching Cloud Atlas for probably the tenth time.
Still blow my mind every time.
A surprising and intriguing examination of how scarcity—and our flawed responses to it—shapes our lives, our society, and our culture
Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find it hard to make friends? These questions seem unconnected, yet Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir show that they are all examples of a mind-set produced by scarcity.
Drawing on cutting-edge research from behavioral science and economics, Mullainathan and Shafir show that scarcity creates a similar psychology for everyone struggling to manage with less than they need. Busy people fail to manage their time efficiently for the same reasons the poor and those maxed out on credit cards fail to manage their money. The dynamics of scarcity reveal why dieters find it hard to resist temptation, why students and busy executives mismanage their time, and why sugarcane farmers are smarter after harvest than before. Once we start thinking in terms of scarcity and the strategies it imposes, the problems of modern life come into sharper focus.
Mullainathan and Shafir discuss how scarcity affects our daily lives, recounting anecdotes of their own foibles and making surprising connections that bring this research alive. Their book provides a new way of understanding why the poor stay poor and the busy stay busy, and it reveals not only how scarcity leads us astray but also how individuals and organizations can better manage scarcity for greater satisfaction and success.
@Herenicus got my (electronic) copy, will report back when finished. I love books like this. If you haven't read Thinking: Fast and Slow, you should!
The .pdf version has already validated my preference for rhyming poetry (pg. 64). And thank you for the challenging recommendation!
It's a fun read. Think freakonomics without the gimmicky plebeian-targeted sumplicity.
Always nice to see the alma mater making history.
can't read it because I'm at work but from your comments I can say that behavioral sciences and economics should never go hand in hand especially while making economic policy
Oh, I would never expect you to. You're like the Crushinator who, in Bender's, paraphrased, words is "A person so fine you need to romance first".
Oh don't worry about that. The futurama quotes are just to lower the defenses, once they're down, the kill shot will be the fine array of baked goods.
Oh God! Save me! He's quickly winning me over.... yet... Is there... nutella cheesecake?
Do you even need to ask the question?
I need an adult.
With this you have won me over. Thank you.
Oh dear god. @Trey Bro. I just woke my fucking basically dead neighbour laughing so goddamn hard. God. It's fucking 2 AM and this old fuck is screaming "WHO IS LAUGHING!? AM I LOSING MY MIND?!" and I hear his like, live-in nurse going "SIr! Sir! It's okay! It's the neighbor!" Like, I don't think she wants this job anymore, and she has you to thank.
This is a rave.
Rosol vs Nadal.
Germany vs USA.
Today is good.
So I realise I'm a few pages late, but all those Michael Cera gifs remind me of when my husband pointed him out as this quiet, average looking kid in his high school yearbook.
MY EXAMS ARE OVER. So relieved. And I managed to swing an 89% on my psyc exam despite the fact that I read the last half of the unit while I was waiting to go inside the exam room. Onto the next semester, starting on the first.
"Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? You will never find that [everlasting] life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man."
This is the only time I care about soccer even though the Dynamo are usually pretty good. Go USA for getting out of the group.