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No One Said Life Is Fair
When I was growing up, my Dad had a standard response to my brothers and me whenever one of us complained about the never-ending ways that life was unfair: “No one ever said life was fair.”
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Congress Gets A Grade
We can ask the following questions about Congress’s performance: do the laws Congress passes perform as intended? And are our tax dollars well spent?
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Wish I Was Here
When we are doing something, anything at all, we have a near infinite number of ways to distract ourselves. We dwell on our thoughts, our mood, and our hopes and dreams.
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Incentives Are Everything
To understand incentives is to understand human motivation. If you want to know what a person will do, start by asking what they have to gain or lose from an action.
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A Bird In The Hand ...
… is worth two in the bush. This proverb encapsulates two truths: * We value things we can have now more than things we will receive in the future, and * If there is uncertainty about what we may receive in the future, we also value it less. I know that donut is
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Nutrition Advice Gives Me Indigestion
What is by turns amusing and maddening about nutrition advice are the villains variously fingered as the causes of our ill health.