Sundry: Tesla, Epictetus on love and loss, and Girard's mimesis
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Struggling people were asked to give advice (instead of taking it) and this increased their confidence greatly — marginalrevolution.com
Amazon got a lot of very useful data about the 238 cities that “competed” to host their HQ2 — axios.com
The Stoic Epictetus on love and loss — brainpickings.org
Interactive explorations of complex systems in biology, physics, mathematics, social sciences, ecology, epidemiology and more —complexity-explorables.org
Mimesis: on the relationship between Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel and René Girard (a French philosopher) — thesocietypages.org
Can you guess which social science experiments replicated successfully and which did not — just from reading a brief description of their results? (spoiler alert: yes, probably, and this is not great for modern psychology) — 80000hours.org
Tesla has a great product people love but is not a great company — ben-evans.com
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