I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.
Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an … - James Surowiecki
Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an …
- James Surowiecki
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that pr… - James Surowiecki
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that pr…
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting. - James Surowiecki
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment a… - James Surowiecki
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment a…
On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge move… - James Surowiecki
On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge move…
I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient. - James Surowiecki
A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government… - James Surowiecki
A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government…
Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in th… - James Surowiecki
Disasters redistribute money from taxpayers to construction workers, from insurance companies to homeowners, and even from those who once lived in th…
The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive. - James Surowiecki
The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.
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