Barbara Tversky on How the Mind Works
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Why Walking Helps Us Think
In Vogue’s 1969 Christmas issue, Vladimir Nabokov offered some advice for teaching James Joyce’s “Ulysses”: “Instead of perpetuating the pretentious nonsense of Homeric, chromatic, and visceral chapter headings, instructors should prepare maps of Dublin with Bloom’s and Stephen’s intertwining itineraries clearly traced.” He drew a charming one himself. Several decades later, a Boston College English professor named Joseph Nugent and his…
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The Perils of “Survivorship Bias”
An aspiring entrepreneur could be forgiven for thinking that dropping out of college to start a company is the key to success. After all, it worked beautifully for Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg. These business moguls’ well-known stories give the impression that to become a triumph in business, all you need is a…
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The Reward Must Be Worth the Suffering
Many years ago whilst in Tokyo LB and I hired a guide to show us around some of the museums of modern art that Tokyo has – I am a fan of the Japanese design aesthetic so it was an afternoon well spent. Whilst sitting down and chatting with her at the end of the…
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The Joys of Social Media and Bullshitting
I have mentioned before about the intriguing claims made by people on social media about their trading prowess. My favourite of late has to be the guy claiming a 10,000% return in his trading. So for shits and giggles, I wanted to see what a 10,000% return on various starting bases was and the result…
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What Lies Behind Every Breakthrough Performance
In his new book, Atomic Habits, James Clear uses the example of an ice cube. Ice melts only when it hits 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Does that mean the energy required to raise the temperature of ice from 25 to 26 to 27 to 29 to 31 degrees doesn’t matter? Of course not. You may only see…
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Neil Pasricha: Happy Habits
Here are a few highlights from our conversation: What I learned from my parents was the model of resilience. The idea that you can add a “yet” to any sentence. Meaning, when I talked to my mom growing up, she’d be like, “Well, dad would take me to the German club and I said to…
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How Things Used To Be
With the inevitable demise of Holden it’s always fun to look back at how things were done. This ad from Ford could never be made today because of the fun police. Surely everyone wants to hang out the back of a ute going up Olivers Hill in Frankston.
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