“Markets are a means of resource allocation, and often a really effective one at that. But they’re not good for everything – or at least not without a lot of engineering and tweaking. That’s something both free-market advocates, as well…
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Book Report: The Inner Lives of Markets
Tagged with: Adwords, auctions, Champagne fairs, deferred acceptance, economics, fundamental attribution error, George Akerlof, Joseph Stiglitz, lemons, markets, models, Pierre Azoulay, platforms, progress, Ray Fisman, Robert Shiller, Scale, signals, streaming, The Inner Lives of Markets, Tim Sullivan, Vickrey auction, William Vickrey, World War 2
Posted in Books, Everything, Marketing, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Marketing, Math and Science
What’s Your Problem? A talk by Larry Smith.
“If the machines are doing the routine work, then humans must do the non-routine work. To be an innovator, you need to talk about unsolved, important problems.” – University of Waterloo Professor, Larry Smith Last night I joined two former colleagues,…
Tagged with: AlphaGo, automation, Dan Deeth, Don Bowman, economics, entrepreneurship, innovation, JK Rowling, Larry Smith, machine learning, marketing automation, Moravec's Paradox, Problem Lab, problem solving, problems, Steve Jobs, Tim Ferriss, University of Waterloo, Velocity, Walt Disney
Posted in Careers, Leadership
Posted in Careers, Leadership
Book Report: Success and Luck
“If any of you go running or ride a bike, you’ll know that when you’re running of bicycling into the wind, you’re very aware of it. You just can’t wait till the course turns around and you’ve got the wind…
Tagged with: Amos Tversky, behavioural economics, Branko Milanovic, Charlie Munger, David Brooks, E.B. White, economics, Italo Calvino, luck, meritocracy, Napolean Bonaparte, Robert H. Frank, success, Success and Luck, taxes, The Improbability Principle, Tom Gilovich, wealth gap
Posted in Books, Leadership, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Leadership, Math and Science
Book Report: The Game of Our Lives
“The world that English football is now played in has changed again. The country is increasingly diverse; society is more individualized and more networked, and the economy has become an exemplar of a globalized and deregulated liberal model of capitalism.…
Tagged with: Adam Crozier, Anthony Crosland, David Goldblatt, economics, Sven-Göran Eriksson, The Game of Our Lives, The Secret Footballer, Vladimir Putin
Posted in Books, Everything, Soccer, Sports
Posted in Books, Everything, Soccer, Sports
Book Report: Winner Take All
“The world is arguably facing seemingly insurmountable constraints across the whole gamut of commodities – arable land, water, energy, and other minerals. Moreover, with China’s aggressive rush for resources, many countries are likely to be caught short as the commodity…
Tagged with: China, collapse, colonialism, commodities, Dambisa Moyo, Daniel Gilbert, economics, monopsony, politics, psychology, resources, strategy
Posted in Books, Everything
Posted in Books, Everything
Book Report: Smart People Should Build Things
“That’s how we give rise to the virtuous cycle of job creation and innovation. We seed an environment with both human capital and financial capital and we engage for years. We make it so that building things is the valued…
Tagged with: AIDS Ride, Andrew Yang, brain drain, Dan Pallotta, economics, entrepreneurship, Great Man Theory, James Kwak, job creation, Kauffman Foundation, Smart People Should Build Things, Stanford Daily, start-ups, TED, Venture for America, Wall Street
Posted in Books, Careers, Finance, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Careers, Finance, Math and Science
Book Report: The Big Short
“The line between gambling and investing is artificial and thin. The soundest investment has the defining trait of a bet (you losing all of your money in hopes of making a bit more), and the wildest speculation has the salient…
Tagged with: analytics, economics, failure, hubris, lessons, Michael Lewis, mistakes, psychopathy
Posted in Books, Finance
Posted in Books, Finance
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