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After honeymooning without his iPhone, Noah Brier speculates that we’ve reached a point where in order to get anything done we need to ‘engineer difficulty’: as part of having a phone with a keypad (not even keyboard) I went back to T9 (you remember it, predictive type for SMS messages). The struggle to send a simple [...]
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This month’s issue of Fast Company includes (as usual) a great column by the Heath brothers. The subject is right up my alley: using signals as diagnostic tools. As I’ve argued before, separating signal from noise and then using those signals to inform our decisions is key to good decision making regardless of the area [...]
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Christopher Penn crafts an interesting piece arguing that piracy (i.e. copyright infringement) is, among other things, a market signal: Piracy indicates that something is sufficiently valuable enough that it’s worth stealing. It’s worth making an illegal copy and spreading without compensating the creator. Do you want the most accurate, unbiased, unmanipulated measure of how popular [...]
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
