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https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/do-success-stories-cause-false-beliefs-about-success Does explicitly acknowledging bias make us less likely to make biased decisions? A new study examining how people justify decisions based on biased data finds that this is not…
https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/so-you-want-career-finance Corporate finance is a key pillar on which modern markets and economies have been built. And, as Visual Capitalist’s Aran Ali details below, this complex ecosystem consists of a…
https://www.ft.com/content/04e5a914-a250-43b3-9e3b-8ab46397b764 Why is it considered acceptable to discriminate against older people in the workplace? Lucy Kellaway on the toxic effects of a puzzling prejudice In September 2018 Ian Tapping, a…
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/01/buy-things-not-experiences.html A nice, well-reasoned piece from Harold Lee pushing back on the idea that we should buy experiences not goods:
https://citywireusa.com/professional-buyer/news/wilshire-gatekeeper-builds-esg-rec-list-hunts-for-analyst-hires/a2376730 The ESG shortlist would be a complement to the firm’s broader recommended list of more than 200 strategies. Wilshire Associates is building out a recommended list of ESG-focused strategies…
https://wuyuansheng.com/doc/Fourth-Quarter-2021-Wilshire-Market-Update-Webinar.pdf
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/01/11/last-chance-saloon-best-chance-to-ease-east-west-tensions-cannot-be-missed/ By Tony KEVIN We are at a crunch point now in Russia-US relations. Their high-level talks starting next week will be closely observed by China, Russia’s de facto strategic…
https://www.redhat.com/architect/apis-soap-rest-graphql-grpc There are many strategies for data exchange. Here’s a primer on four essentials. An architecture is wishful thinking until we understand how information is transferred across systems. That means…
https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupts-open-source-libraries-projects-affected A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “faker.js” and “colors.js” — that thousands of users depend on,…
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2022/01/10/us-makes-mockery-treaties-and-international-law/ By K.J. Noh U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other members of the Biden Cabinet are fond of proclaiming the “rules-based international order” (RBIO) or “rules-based order” every…