by Think In The Morning | Dec 31, 2020 | More |
“My favourite line in all of literature is Rudyard Kipling’s monkey: ‘My people are the wisest people in the jungle, my people have always said so.’” Joni Mitchell For the past few days I’ve been rereading Joan Didion. The White Album, Slouching Towards...
by Think In The Morning | Dec 12, 2020 | More, Sea Gull |
History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes. Mark Twain Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief...
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...
