Your mind is much busier than you think.
Author Archives: Amol
Planet Money Podcast – “Nudge, Nudge, Nobel”
11/2/2017 Episode was about the origin of behavioral economics. Summed up succinctly by the creator of the field (Richard Thaler), who won a Nobel Prize: traditional economics can be boiled down to two words “people optimize.” Thaler’s response that summarizes behavioral economics: “no they don’t” The idea is that people do not act rationally inContinue reading “Planet Money Podcast – “Nudge, Nudge, Nobel””
What Happened, Hillary Rodham Clinton
An explanation from the source itself on the biggest WTF event in recent American politics.
William Henry Harrison, by Gail Collins
President for a month.
What The Dog Saw, By Malcom Gladwell
Life is all about perspective.
Radiolab – “Time”
This episode was a rebroadcast from a very early one in the series. It’s called “time.” The podcast describes how “railroad time” fundamentally shaped a town in Ohio. Back in the late 1800s, people kept time on a personal level. That is, everyone had their own personal pocket watch, maybe a clock at homeContinue reading “Radiolab – “Time””
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
How the mind processes information.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Amazing story of medicine, poverty, and race.
Shoe Dog, by Phil Knight
It takes a lifetime of work to be an overnight success.
Podcast: Planet Money – The Chicken Tax
Podcast introduces an interesting question: when you think of mid-size sedans in the US, you can name a bunch of models made by both foreign and domestic car companies. But when you think of pickup trucks, you only really think about US companies. Why do US automotive companies dominate the US pickup truck marketContinue reading “Podcast: Planet Money – The Chicken Tax”
Book Summaries. Less than 272 words. 