Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, … - James Surowiecki

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There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings.

James Surowiecki

Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

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There does seem to be some evidence that as people get older, they procrastinate less, perhaps because they feel the pressure of time more.

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The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.

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The problem is that groups are only smart when the people in them are as independent as possible. This is the paradox of the wisdom of crowds.

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Political risk is hard to manage because so much comes down to the personal choices of policymakers, whether prime ministers or heads of central banks.

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Addictive behavior is kind of the inverse of procrastination: procrastination is about not being able to do what you want to do, addiction about not being able to not do what you don't want to do (drink, use drugs, etc. )

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