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I just linked to his book, The Storytelling Animal, over the weekend after I saw Michael Mauboussin recommend it.
Link to: A Conversation with Jonathan Gottschall
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Greenlight Capital's Q1 Letter [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) The Slow Death of the University [H/T @ProfSteveKeen] (LINK) Latticework of Mental Models: Complex Adaptive Systems (LINK) A Conversation between Sam Harris and Jonathan Gottschall about Fighting...
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East Coast Q4 2014 Letter: All Is Well Since All Grows Better (LINK) Allan Mecham’s Arlington Value Capital 2014 Annual Letter (LINK) Cantab Capital Partners: Cursed by Randomness [H/T @george_cooper__) (LINK) Fireside Chat with Eric Schmidt and Sal...
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Scott Adams: Loser Choices (LINK) The loser worldview is that whoever is causing the problem needs to fix it for you. The problem with the loser worldview is that in many cases the only person who CAN fix the problem is you, even if you had nothing...
- The Great Debate: The Storytelling Of Science (official) - Parts 1 & 2
The Origins Project at ASU presents the final night in the Origins Stories weekend, focusing on the science of storytelling and the storytelling of science. The Storytelling of Science features a panel of esteemed scientists, public intellectuals, and...
- An Echo Chamber Of Boom And Bust - By Robert J. Shiller
THE global signs of a recovery in economic confidence seem puzzling. It is a large and diverse world, after all, so why should confidence have rebounded so quickly in so many places? Government stimulus and bailout packages have generally not been big...
Money and Finance
Edge: A Conversation with Jonathan Gottschall
I just linked to his book, The Storytelling Animal, over the weekend after I saw Michael Mauboussin recommend it.
Link to: A Conversation with Jonathan Gottschall
We think of stories as a wildly creative art form but within that creativity and that diversity there is a lot of conformity. Stories are very predictable. No matter where you go in the world, no matter how different people seem, no matter how hard their lives are, people tell stories, universally, and universally the stories are more or less like ours: the same basic human obsessions, and the same basic structure. The structure comes down to: stories have a character, the character has a predicament or a problem—they're always problem-focused—and the character tries to solve the problem. In its most basic terms, that's what a story is—a problem solution narrative.
- Links
Greenlight Capital's Q1 Letter [H/T ValueWalk] (LINK) The Slow Death of the University [H/T @ProfSteveKeen] (LINK) Latticework of Mental Models: Complex Adaptive Systems (LINK) A Conversation between Sam Harris and Jonathan Gottschall about Fighting...
- Links
East Coast Q4 2014 Letter: All Is Well Since All Grows Better (LINK) Allan Mecham’s Arlington Value Capital 2014 Annual Letter (LINK) Cantab Capital Partners: Cursed by Randomness [H/T @george_cooper__) (LINK) Fireside Chat with Eric Schmidt and Sal...
- Links
Scott Adams: Loser Choices (LINK) The loser worldview is that whoever is causing the problem needs to fix it for you. The problem with the loser worldview is that in many cases the only person who CAN fix the problem is you, even if you had nothing...
- The Great Debate: The Storytelling Of Science (official) - Parts 1 & 2
The Origins Project at ASU presents the final night in the Origins Stories weekend, focusing on the science of storytelling and the storytelling of science. The Storytelling of Science features a panel of esteemed scientists, public intellectuals, and...
- An Echo Chamber Of Boom And Bust - By Robert J. Shiller
THE global signs of a recovery in economic confidence seem puzzling. It is a large and diverse world, after all, so why should confidence have rebounded so quickly in so many places? Government stimulus and bailout packages have generally not been big...