James Nguyen wrote an opinion piece for The Hill titled Don’t blame insurers for what doctor and hospital cartels did to US health care (28 December 2024).
Continue reading “Two cost drivers of U.S. health care: price opacity and doctor shortage”The Unintended Consequences of Open Offices
Ethan Bernstein and Ben Waber wrote an article for Harvard Business Review titled The Truth About Open Offices: There are reasons why they don’t produce the desired interactions (November-December 2019).
It is worth noting that the article was published prior to ubiquity of Zoom meetings, but the general insights on human behavior likely stand the test of time.
Continue reading “The Unintended Consequences of Open Offices”18th Century English: capitalizing common nouns and long S
An article titled Eighteenth-Century Grammars on the British Literature Wiki (hosted by University of Delaware) explains when the capitalization of common nouns (substantives) came in and out of fashion, the use of the long s in English, and more.
Continue reading “18th Century English: capitalizing common nouns and long S”H pencils are hard. B pencils are soft. So why are they called B?
Artists use a variety of pencils to get different marks.
2H pencil is hard, 4H pencil is harder, etc.
2B pencil is soft, 4B is softer, etc.
So why aren’t they called H and S pencils?
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Alan Levinovitz wrote an article for The Chronicle of Higher Education titled Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong? (September 25, 2024).
Continue reading “Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?”The doorway effect
Charles B. Brenner and Jeffrey M. Zacks wrote an article for Scientific American titled Why Walking through a Doorway Makes You Forget (December 13, 2011).
Continue reading “The doorway effect”Michael Mauboussin: Embracing Complexity
Tim Sullivan interviewed Michael Mauboussin for a Harvard Business Review article titled Embracing Complexity (September 2011).
Continue reading “Michael Mauboussin: Embracing Complexity”A Grumpy Economist on Inflation’s Causes
Mickey Butts interviewed economist John H. Cochrane for Stanford Business: A “Grumpy Economist” Weighs in on Inflation’s Causes — And Its Cures (20 August 2024).
« Cochrane is an economist at Stanford’s Hoover Institution … the author of The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level, and writes a newsletter titled The Grumpy Economist. »
Continue reading “A Grumpy Economist on Inflation’s Causes”So this is what’s happened to the world: optimization trumps human preference
Rory Sutherland wrote an article for Behavioral Scientist titled Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent? (17 September 2024).
Continue reading “So this is what’s happened to the world: optimization trumps human preference”Hijacking the brand equity of EF Hutton
Matt Levine wrote an article for Bloomberg titled 23andMe is Just Me Now: Also EF Hutton, Avon CDS, and pig butchering. (19 September 2024) .
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