11 Steps to Successfully Changing Your Behavior
11 steps to change your behavior and improve your life.
ReadThe Psychology of Upfront Pricing
Use psychology and prospect theory to maximize your upfront sales.
ReadThe Startup Guide to Cash Flow
Startups make tradeoffs between profitability, payback period, and growth, and usually don't know they're doing so.
ReadNo More Scrolling: Ditching my iPhone for an Apple Watch
I replaced my smartphone with an Apple Watch. The amount of screen in my pocket went from ~18 square inches to ~2.6 square inches—almost 7x smaller. Here's why I did it, what happened, and what I learned.
ReadInvesting and Causation
Judea Pearl proposes three views of cause and effect: association, intervention, and counterfactuals. In this post, I speculate that this is a useful way to understand different investment classes—from passive index funds to leveraged buyouts to derivatives.
ReadUndemocratic Republic: The Tyranny of the Senate and Why it Matters
50% of the population is represented by just 18 Senators. It’s time for us to revisit the Connecticut Compromise, the Devil’s Bargain that allowed for the adoption of the Constitution at the expense of a democratic Senate.
ReadDisruptive Unbundling and Bundling
When do industries bundle, and when do they unbundle? This article introduces disruptive unbundling, and describes how disruptive innovations drive cycles of bundling and unbundling.
ReadUsing Language Data to Understand Emotions 🎭
Using machine learning to generate a novel categorization of emotions.
ReadSocial Network Analysis - How Many Communities Am I In?
Using social network analysis to see how many communities I exist in, and observing communities-within-communities.
ReadVisualizing YouTube During Its Growth Years📱
A data visualization of the top YouTube channels in 2013, with discussion of what's changed over the last 6 years.
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