Listening to an interview with Paul Tough regarding his new book on higher education had me thinking. He makes a point somewhere along the lines of "Stories like a girl going from homelessness to the …
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Chances to win
Yes, it can be frustrating when someone has it better than you. But no, they are not the reason you don't have it good. They didn't steal from you. They didn't trick you. We all have …
$20,000 ticket sold here
If people were rational, there would be no reason to advertise that a certain corner store sold a winning lottery ticket. But of course, humans are not rational. We believe in streaks, …
The arc of empires
It is not the property of any one soil to produce fine fruits and good soldiers, too. Cyrus, King of Persia, according to Herodotus There is a narrative around the rise and fall of the Persians …
Ira Glass on creative work
Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you …
American Factory
The documentary on Netflix tells a complicated tale of international business, culture and factories in America. It's about a Chinese company buying a an American factory that closed years prior, …