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Riesgo = peligro + escándalo.
Provocateur,
Drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health.
Unless you have more information, however, it’s hard to say what’s causing what.
The future is far less knowable than you think.
Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.
Incentives are the cornerstone of modern life. And understanding them - or, often, deciphering them - is the key to understanding a problem, and how it might be solved.Knowing what to measure, and how...
1. What Does It Mean to Think Like a Freak?
On exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality.
Convoluted
Connote
Commensurate
Think about all the time, brainpower, and social or political capital you continued to spend on some commitment only because you didn't like the idea of quitting.
People who buy annuities, it turns out, live longer than people who don’t, and not because the people who buy annuities are healthier to start with. The evidence suggests that an annuity’s steady payo...
Or, as W. C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
La información es un faro, un garrote, una rama de olivo, en total, un elemento de disuasión, dependiendo de quién la maneje y cómo.
If there is one mantra a Freak lives by, it is this: people respond to incentives.
Engañar es un acto económico primitivo: obtener más a cambio de menos.
But being confident you are right is not the same as being right.