evonomics.com
Who Created the Economy?
10 min · · Human action, but not human design · Shared by 5, including Mihai Badita
Scientific American
The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized
10 min · · Are the most successful people in society just the luckiest people? · Shared by 442, including 📁𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧, John Hues, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), hiten.eth, Bram Kanstein, Scott Santens, Ward Plunet, Andrei Luca, Tyler Rooney, Carly, Tom Connor, Oscar MacDonald, Jane, Thomas Power, tjalve, Rodrigo Franco (Caffo), Krishna, Mihai Badita
oneusefulthing.substack.com
When Survivorship Bias meets Superstitious Learning
3 min · · Why people's views of how to be a successful entrepreneur are so wrong, and why that can hurt them. · Shared by 9, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Mihai Badita
youtube.com
3 Rules for Rulers
· How to make allies and crush your enemies. Discuss this video: http://reddit.com/r/cgpgrey Brought to you in part by: http://www.audible.com/grey Special Tha... · Shared by 44, including Clemens M. Schuster, Johnny Alvarado, Tristan Harris, Mihai Badita, Joel Klettke
hotnews.ro
Andrei Munteanu, cercetător: Criteriile de evaluare a profesorilor sunt, în unele universități din România, ridicole, și probabil apărate cu înverșunare…
8 min · · În Statele Unite, unde sunt cele mai multe joburi academice, faptul că multe universități sunt private și depind în mare măsură de taxele de înscriere plătite de studenții · Shared by 5, including Mihai Badita
humanprogress.org
Worldviews Are Pessimistic Because They Are Outdated
3 min · · In the book he published shortly before his death, the late professor of global health, Hans Rosling, recounted a story of interacting with his students. Used to thinking about countries in t · Shared by 8, including Mihai Badita, John Hagel
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Religion, Violence, Tolerance & Progress: Nothing to do with Theology
7 min · · Religions create highly differentiated belief clusters and mentalities that have little to do with their theologies. · Shared by 26, including Michael Seemann, jérémie Flück, Ceferino Díaz, Mihai Badita
The Atlantic
America Is Having a Moral Convulsion
20+ min · · Levels of trust in this country—in our institutions, in our politics, and in one another—are in precipitous decline. And when social trust collapses, nations fail. Can we get it back before it’s too… · Shared by 121, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Matteo Furia, Ethan Zeigler, Kevin Kelly, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Scott Monty, Lee Keyes, Mihai Badita, Phillip Murphy, Jochen Burkhard, Ian M Calvert, Brian Stelter, @mainec@fromm.social, Joshua Benton, Philanthropy News Digest
money.cnn.com
Fear & Greed Index
4 min · · During the last five trading days, volume in put options has lagged volume in call options by 28.92% as investors make bullish bets in their portfolios. However, this is still among the highest levels… · Shared by 22, including Andreas Staub, Mihai Badita, Barry Ritholtz
The Guardian
Nassim Taleb: my rules for life
16+ min · · The controversial thinker who predicted the 2008 financial crisis hates bankers, academics and journalists. Carole Cadwalladr took the risk of meeting him · Shared by 20, including 瑞拿頭, Mihai Badita
Marker by Medium
Our Economy Was Just Blasted Years Into the Future
13+ min · · The crisis is compressing and accelerating trends that would have taken decades to play out · Shared by 181, including Tom Connor, Tris Hussey, Liliane Ferrari ™, John Koetsier, Thomas Power, Andrew Ermogenous, Mihai Badita, Saad Hasnain
thinkmarkets.wordpress.com
Interests are More Powerful than Ideas?
2 min · · by Mario Rizzo There is an interesting interview with Ed Feulner, the outgoing president of the Heritage Foundation, in the weekend (Dec. 8-9) Wall Street Journal. The interview got me thinking abo… · Shared by 7, including Mihai Badita
Insider Business
How Globalization Created And Destroyed The City Of Venice
5 min · · Wikimedia Commons The story of Venice from 800 to 1350 is of incredible political and institutional change of a remarkably modern sort, sparked by international trade.Egalitarian institutions and… · Shared by 6, including Mihai Badita
evonomics.com
Why Capitalism Creates Pointless Jobs
8 min · · It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working. · Shared by 58, including Bryan Onel, Leslie D, François-Oli Devaux, Alberto, Charlie O'Keefe @charlieok@hachyderm.io, Taylor Pearson, Jakub Ferenc, Mihai Badita
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Corporate Socialism: The Government is Bailing Out Investors & Managers Not You
5 min · · (With Mark Spitznagel) · Shared by 305, including zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Vikram Dutt, Clemens M. Schuster, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Memen Isimo, Matthias Lampe, Meltem Demirors, Food Babe, Sebastien Meunier, Vinny Lingham, Faik Ersoy, Thomas Power, ⒿⒹⒽ, Antonio Ramos, Lelio Simi, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Thomas Euler, Severin Hacker, Christian Surchi
