Why do Singaporeans like hiring maids?
https://qr.ae/pvOMkm I would not say that Singaporeans “like” hiring maids. Rather, they are forced to employ helpers. Singapore is a very expensive city to live in. Having lived a couple…
A Cosmic Tarantula, Caught by NASA’s Webb
NASA's James Webb Space Take a moment to stare into thousands of never-before-seen young stars in the Tarantula Nebula. The James Webb Space Telescope reveals details of the structure and…
*The Rise and Fall of the EAST*
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/09/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-east.html The author is Hasheng Huang of MIT and the subtitle is Examination, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology in Chinese History and Today. Forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2023. Excerpt:…
Blackhat USA2022
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The IKEA Effect – Why managers fall in love with their own ideas
https://mannhowie.com/ikea-effect Howie Mann on Sep 3, 20226 minute read The IKEA effect describes how people come to overvalue things in which they have successfully put effort into. This cognitive bias…
The Cream Rises to the Top
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/09/the-cream-rises-to-the-top.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-cream-rises-to-the-top NBER: Can efforts to eradicate inequality in wealth and education eliminate intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic status? The Chinese Communist Revolution and Cultural Revolution aimed to do exactly that. Using…
12 Extraordinary Stoic Moments
Unlike the “pen-and-ink philosophers,” as the type was derisively known even 2,000 years ago, to the Stoics, Stoicism is something you DO. They were most concerned with how one lived.…
Traveler, There is no Road
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/08/friday-poem-312.html Traveler, your footprints are the only road, nothing else. Traveler, there is no road; you make your own path as you walk. As you walk, you make your own…