Pushing things forward
(Paul Graham) One of the more surprising things I’ve noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are. In this essay I’m going to…
Traditional as the new radical
Shannon Hayes writes and works with her family on Sap Bush Hollow Farm in upstate New York. She is the author of Radical Homemakers, The Farmer and the Grill and…
Are we getting less violent?
In a preview of his The Better Angles of Our Nature, Steven Pinker takes on violence and the ways we perceive it. We live in violent times, an era of…
The Weight of the Union
Designed for Anytime Fitness and based on the fitness and nutritional habits of its 1.3 million members, the visual looks at the numbers behind obesity – how expensive it is…
Good reads–The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
`The Righteous Mind’ presents an imaginative theory on the origins of human morality and the source of discord in the realm of moral systems such as politics and religion. It…
The dangers of storytelling
One interesting thing about cognitive biases – they’re the subject of so many books these days. There’s the Nudge book, the Sway book, the Blink book, like the one-title book,…
Honduras’ Gultch here we come!
(Economist) Now, for the first time, libertarians have a real chance to implement their ideas. In addition to a big special development region, the Honduran government intends to approve two…
Good reads–Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
By many accounts, Daniel Kahneman is the father of his field, Behavioral Economics, which is a mix between behavioral psychology and traditional economics and has provided perhaps the most fascinating…