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New post - Behavioural economics: underrated or overrated?
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Behavioural economics: underrated or overrated?
Tyler Cowen’s Conversations with Tyler feature a section in which Cowen throws a series of ideas at the guest, and the guest responds with whether each idea is overrated or underrated. In a f…
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New post: My blogroll
http://jasoncollins.blog/2018/04/27/my-blogroll/

My blogroll
After my recent post on how I focus, I received a couple of requests for the blogs I follow. Here are my current subscriptions in Feedly, with occasional comments. Some of these blogs have been in …
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New post: Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class

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Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class
In 2011, Thorstein Veblen was ranked seventh in a poll of economists on their favourite, dead, 20th century economist. He ranked behind Keynes, Friedman, Samuelson, Hayek, Schumpeter and Galbraith.…
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New post - How I focus (and live)

http://jasoncollins.blog/2018/04/19/how-i-focus-and-live/

How I focus (and live)
This post is a record of some strategies that I use to focus and be mildly productive. It also records a few other features of my lifestyle. Why develop these strategies? On top of delivering in my…
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New post - Michael Mauboussin's More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places

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Michael Mauboussin’s More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places
Michael Mauboussin’s message in More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places is that we need an interdisciplinary toolkit to give us the diversity to make good decisi…
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New post - Susan Cain's Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
I have mixed views about Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. Cain makes an important point that many of our environments, social structures a…
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New post - Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie's Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter

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Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie’s Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie’s Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter is not an exciting read. However, it is a good catalogue of group decision-making research (leading to …
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New post: Some podcast recommendations

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Some podcast recommendations
What I’ve been listening to recently: Shane Parrish’s blog Farnam Street is a favourite of mine. His podcast The Knowledge Project is also worth a listen. I recommend the episodes featu…
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New post: People should use their judgment ... except they're often lousy at it

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People should use their judgment … except they’re often lousy at it
My Behavioral Scientist article, Don’t Touch The Computer was in part a reaction to Andrew McAfee and Eric Brynjolfsson’s book The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in …
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New post - Mike Walsh interviews me on algorithm aversion

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Mike Walsh interviews me on algorithm aversion
Mike Walsh recently interviewed me for his Between Worlds Podcast, and here is the result. I largely talk about the material in two of my Behavioral Scientist articles on algorithm aversion (1 and …
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New post: Philip Tetlock on messing with the algorithm

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Philip Tetlock on messing with the algorithm
From an 80,000 hours podcast episode: Robert Wiblin: Are you a super forecaster yourself? Philip Tetlock: No. I could tell you a story about that. I actually thought I could be, I would be. So in t…
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New post - Michael Lewis’s The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed The World

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Michael Lewis’s The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed The World
My journey into understanding human decision making started when I read Michael Lewis’s Moneyball in 2005. The punchline – which, as it turns out, has been known across numerous domains…
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New post - Duckworth’s Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

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Angela Duckworth’s Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
In Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance, Angela Duckworth argues that outstanding achievement comes from a combination of passion – a focused approach to something you deeply care abou…
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New post: Dealing with algorithm aversion

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Dealing with algorithm aversion
Over at Behavioral Scientist is my latest contribution. From the intro: The first American astronauts were recruited from the ranks of test pilots, largely due to convenience. As Tom Wolfe describe…
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New post: Dan Ariely’s Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations

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Dan Ariely’s Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations
If you have read Dan Ariely’s The Upside of Irrationality, there will be few surprises for you in his TED book Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations. TED books are designed to …
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From an interesting a16z podcast episode Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice (I hope I got the correct names against who is saying what): Mintu Turakhia (cardiologist at Stanford and Director of the Centre for Digital Health): AI is not new to medicine. Automated systems in healthcare have been described since the 1960s. And they went through various iterations of expert systems and neural networks and called many different things. [ 885 more words ]

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AI in medicine: Outperforming humans since the 1970s
From an interesting a16z podcast episode Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice (I hope I got the correct names against who is saying what): Mintu Turakhia (cardiologist at Stanford and Director of th…
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New post: Is there a "backfire effect"?

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Is there a “backfire effect”?
I saw the answer hinted at in a paper released mid last-year (covered on WNYC), but Daniel Engber has now put together a more persuasive case: Ten years ago last fall, Washington Post science write…
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New post - Benartzi (and Lehrer’s) The Smarter Screen: Surprising Ways to Influence and Improve Online Behaviour

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Benartzi (and Lehrer’s) The Smarter Screen: Surprising Ways to Influence and Improve Online Behaviour
The replication crisis has ruined my ability to relax while reading a book built on social psychology foundations. The rolling sequence of interesting but small sample and possibly not replicable f…
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