Calculating the Selfish Return to Education
In The Case Against Education, Bryan Caplan walks through detailed calculations on the expected selfish or private return to education for different […]
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11 heuristics for better project leadership
At the end of How Big Things Get Done, the authors set out a bunch of heuristics to improve the chances of […]
Information Entropy (from “The Most Human Human”)
I’ve split out this post from my main summary of The Most Human Human by Brian Christian. Click the link to find my the full […]
Optimal Stopping and the Secretary Problem (from Algorithms to Live By)
This post is split out from my main summary of Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. Check out […]
Sorting (from Algorithms to Live By)
This post is split out from my main summary of Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. Check out that summary to […]
Scheduling (from Algorithms to Live By)
This post is split out from my main summary of Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. Check out that summary to […]
Game Theory (from Algorithms to Live By)
This post is split out from my main summary of Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths. Check out that summary to […]
Four Thousand Weeks – 10 Practical Tools to Help Embrace Your Finitude
In the Appendix to Four Thousand Weeks, Burkeman sets out 10 practical tools that will help you embrace your finitude
Four Thousand Weeks – Five Questions to Ask Yourself
In Four Thousand Weeks, Oliver Burkeman suggests asking yourself these five questions to make his ideas more concrete. The five questions are […]
Mortimer Adler’s Reading List from “How to Read a Book”
In How to Read a Book, Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren put forward a recommended reading list, of truly great books […]