Category: What Works Great life lessons from people who have “been there, done that” long before you.
Whatever you earn – live within your means
Sharks or Hippos? or the Attentional Bias
Let me try and make myself even less popular with the female minority(*) of the human species
The Relative-Dollar-Bias
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt (2006)
Executive Summary: Haidt poses several “Great Ideas” on happiness espoused by thinkers of the past—Plato, Buddha, Jesus, and others—and examines them in the light of contemporary psychological research, extracting from them any lessons that still apply to our modern lives. …
There are “debt-free” people among us – how do they do it?
Market Sense and Nonsense by Jack D. Schwager – Executive Summary & Key Messages
Schwager takes aim at the most perniciously pervasive academic precepts, money management canards, market myths, and investor errors. Like so many ducks in a shooting gallery, Schwager picks them off, one at a time, revealing the truth about many of…
How we know what isn’t so by Thomas Gilovich – Executive Summary & Key Messages
The tendency to find order to ambiguous stimuli is built into the cognitive machinery we use to understand the world. That predisposition to impose order can be so automatic and so unchecked that we often end up believing in the…
The Origin of Financial Crises by George Cooper (October 2008) – Executive Summary & Key Messages
Two main subjects: Why markets for goods and services tend toward equilibrium, but financial markets do not. Why central banks are useful and what they should do (which they currently don’t). Breaking the 170 page book into nine chapters, Cooper…
Great life lessons from people who have “been there, done that” long before you.
Whatever you earn – live within your means
Sharks or Hippos? or the Attentional Bias
Let me try and make myself even less popular with the female minority(*) of the human species
The Relative-Dollar-Bias
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt (2006)
Executive Summary: Haidt poses several “Great Ideas” on happiness espoused by thinkers of the past—Plato, Buddha, Jesus, and others—and examines them in the light of contemporary psychological research, extracting from them any lessons that still apply to our modern lives. …
There are “debt-free” people among us – how do they do it?
Market Sense and Nonsense by Jack D. Schwager – Executive Summary & Key Messages
Schwager takes aim at the most perniciously pervasive academic precepts, money management canards, market myths, and investor errors. Like so many ducks in a shooting gallery, Schwager picks them off, one at a time, revealing the truth about many of…
How we know what isn’t so by Thomas Gilovich – Executive Summary & Key Messages
The tendency to find order to ambiguous stimuli is built into the cognitive machinery we use to understand the world. That predisposition to impose order can be so automatic and so unchecked that we often end up believing in the…
The Origin of Financial Crises by George Cooper (October 2008) – Executive Summary & Key Messages
Two main subjects: Why markets for goods and services tend toward equilibrium, but financial markets do not. Why central banks are useful and what they should do (which they currently don’t). Breaking the 170 page book into nine chapters, Cooper…