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Non-financial: July - September 2014
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Which stories?
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We are primed to use stories. Part of our survival as a species depended upon listening to the stories of our tribal elders as they shared parables and passed down their experience and the wisdom of those who went before.
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Friday, September 26, 2014
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Start-ups
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A big company is like a giant galley driven by a thousand rowers. Two things keep the speed of the galley down. One is that individual rowers don’t see any result from working harder. The other is that the average rower is likely to be pretty average.
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Friday, September 19, 2014
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That thing …
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… that we all spend all our time not thinking about directly: that we are so tiny and at the mercy of large forces and that time is always passing and that every day we've lost one more day that will never come back.
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Friday, September 12, 2014
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Regret
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Studies show that about nine out of ten people expect to feel more regret when they foolishly switch stocks than when they foolishly fail to switch stocks.
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Friday, September 5, 2014
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Spending's OK too
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If you bought David Bowie albums in the ‘70s, instead of squirreling away your money for a ‘rainy day’, you probably did the right thing.
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Friday, August 29, 2014
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Who you are
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To put our faith in tangible goals would seem to be, at best, unwise. So we [should] not strive to be firemen, we [should] not strive to be bankers, nor policemen, nor doctors. We [should] strive to be ourselves.
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Friday, August 22, 2014
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Knowing the difference
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An essential skill in alleviating our money worries is the ability to distinguish between wants and needs. The distinction is useful in warding off mere desires, like the longing for the latest shiny gadget with little utilitarian value.
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Friday, August 15, 2014
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At our most stupid
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We all have self-cures for strong feeling. Then the self-cure becomes a problem, in the obvious sense that the problem of the alcoholic is not alcohol but sobriety.
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Friday, August 8, 2014
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Brave new world
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Alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World
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Friday, August 1, 2014
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Ray Bradbury on …
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Why is it that in a society with a Puritan heritage we have such completely ambivalent feelings about Work? We feel guilty, do we not, if not busy?
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Friday, July 25, 2014
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Extract …
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Forget about academia, you’ve done your work, start celebrating your success, start reaping your rewards, start living your lives to the full in the real nasty, sexy world out there.
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Friday, July 18, 2014
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Charlie talks about ...
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Lots of people are very smart in terms of passing tests and making rapid calculations, but they make one asinine decision after another because they have terrible streaks of nuttiness.
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Friday, July 11, 2014
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Misapprehensions
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Don: "Up until the age of 25, I believed that 'invective' was a synonym for 'urine'."
BBC: "Why ever would you have thought that?"
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Friday, July 4, 2014
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