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Facebook, Inc. (Lessons 16 & 17)
“It wasn’t about two kids in a dorm room anymore.” –Chapter 25 of The Accidental Billionaires. In our next class, we will revisit two critical events in the founding of Facebook: (i) Eduardo Saverin’s fateful decision to freeze Facebook’s bank … Continue reading
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Apple is 40 yrs. old today
More here, via kottke. Addendum (4/26): Not April Fools: Apple’s revenues decline for the first time in 13 years. Blame Tim Cook and the pointless Apple Watch? Via The Verge, Ben Popper writes: Apple posted a year-over-year decline in revenue … Continue reading
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Is Puerto Rico underpopulated?
Here is a real-time example of people “voting with their feet.” We lived in Puerto Rico from 1993 and 2009, and we can tell you that Puerto Ricans are severely overtaxed by their government, regardless of which political party is … Continue reading
Kitchen art (Loch Ness serving spoon edition)
Available at Animi Causa — hat tip: Andrew Liszewski, via Gizmodo.
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Should we repeal the Infield Fly Rule?
Believe it or not, the infield fly rule in baseball has generated extensive scholarly commentary over the years, beginning with William S. Stevens’ 1975 paper “The Common Law Origins of the Infield Fly Rule.” The most recent contributions to this … Continue reading
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Visualization of the “lucky fool syndrome”
Read the full essay by Carl Richards describing the “Lucky Fool Syndrome” (or self-attribution bias) here.
Posted in Deception, Logical Fallacies
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Dropping the “the” from Facebook (Lesson 14)
“In fact, the only thing that really bothered [Sean Parker] about the site was the ‘the’ in the name. It wasn’t necessary. He hated unnecessary things.” –Excerpt from Chapter 22 of Accidental Billionaires. In “The Social Network” (the movie version … Continue reading
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