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Book Review: The World Without Us
One of the pleasures of holiday breaks is the opportunity to read an entire book in a short period of time. Many books I have read were consumed in fits and starts, at night or on the subway. Over the winter 2008-09 break I had the pleasure to read The World Without Us, which came [...]
Differences of Degree vs. Differences of Kind
Just wanted to jot down a principle I’ve come across a couple places and tends to explain a lot of the erroneous (although often well-intentioned) paths we go down: people often mistake (or elevate) differences of degree for difference of kind.
From the NYTimes Magazine, an article on gender-based education covers the merits and demerits of [...]
Clay Shirky on Colbert
Clay Shirky was on the Colbert show last night talking about his new book, Here Comes Everybody. Sylvia and I had the unbelievably good fortune to be invited guests of Clay’s. We got to join him in the green room and sit in VIP seats for the taping. Clay did really well, and we had [...]
Affecting Human Behavior While Preserving Choice
I came across this today – this is an area of interest to me, which is how to get people to make better choices without limiting their options. This book which deals with the mechanisms behind this, namely how to offer choices to people but to “nudge” them to make the best choice: www.nudges.org/
Things like getting [...]
Clay’s New Book
Sylvia and I are excited to get a copy of Clay Shirky’s new book Here Comes Everybody. I can’t wait to dig into it.