by Think In The Morning | Nov 11, 2020 | More |
I knew Nobel economist Kenneth Arrow slightly when I was an undergraduate student at Stanford. I was greatly impacted by his book Social Choice and Individual Values at the time and have referred back to it often. In simple terms one of his most famous theories...
by Think In The Morning | Nov 4, 2020 | More |
Impact bias, a cognitive bias, is the tendency to overestimate the intensity or the duration of future emotions and states of feeling. This overestimation can occur for both positive and negative feeling states. (Psychology Glossary) You’ve probably heard the...
by Think In The Morning | Oct 26, 2020 | More |
Jorge Castañeda has written an important book with his America Through Foreign Eyes. America is a large, complex and diverse country, a country that cannot be pigeonholed into a box by any American or foreigner. I have always been fascinated by the various ways...
by Think In The Morning | Oct 10, 2020 | More |
Think in the Morning has been blogging a bit less recently. The steady Caw! Caw! Caw!of the ravens followed by their throaty gurgling croaks announces Fall, our favorite time of the year. Cooler and overcast weather and the first rains make for a perfect reading...
by Think In The Morning | Sep 30, 2020 | More |
Anyone who knows of the Mendocino Whale War, expertly documented and photographed by Mendocino’s Nicholas Wilson, knows that Donald Trump is not Byrd Baker, not even close. Byrd Baker, quirky, odd, funny, compassionate, a character for sure, was a true...
by Think In The Morning | Sep 23, 2020 | More |
Over three years ago we wrote about The Complexity Of Hypocrisy In The Age Of Donald Trump. For those of us who value honesty, decency and courage things have only deteriorated since then. Those who believe in American democracy watch in horror as the Republican...
