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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.
- 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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient. - James Surowiecki
I do think to some extent multitasking is a way of fooling ourselves that we're being exceptionally efficient.
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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