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New site on the blog roll: Freakonomics I remember reading Freakonomics while in Jamaica. If you’ve read the book, I’m sure you’ll enjoy the blog! Freakonomics makes you consider fascinating correlations as well as cause and effect situations that you may or may not have previously thought about. The most controversial one is most likely The [...] This evening I picked up Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins. I read the first paragraph and was reminded of this quote one of my grade 9 teachers used to say to us all the time… I also have a hard time believing that grade 9 was [...] “One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the [...] |
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