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“the aggregation of marginal gains,” which was the philosophy of searching for a tiny margin of improvement in everything you do.
“One way to start to think about incentives is to ask four questions about a particular choice architecture: Who uses? Who chooses? Who pays? Who profits?”
― Nudge: The Final Edition
― Nudge: The Final Edition
“It is an economic era that has come to be known as the Great Acceleration, thanks to its extraordinary surge in human activity. Between 1950 and 2010, the global population almost trebled in size, and real World GDP increased sevenfold. Worldwide, freshwater use more than trebled, energy use increased fourfold, and fertiliser use rose over tenfold.”
― Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
― Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
“the new wave of artificial intelligence does not actually bring us intelligence but instead a critical component of intelligence—prediction.”
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
“Homo sapiens, it turns out, is the most cooperative species on the planet, outperforming ants, hyenas, and even the naked mole-rat when it comes to living alongside those who are beyond our next of kin.”
― Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
― Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
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