http://static.bloggingheads.tv/ramon/_live/players/player_v5.2-licensed.swf (The clip above covers some basics of mental energy and depletion.) The alternative title for this post was “I’m hungry; you’re wrong.” I’m not sure which is better… In any case, consider this bit from Kahneman: Resisting this large collection of potential availability biases is possible, but tiresome. You must make the effort to …
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How to treat your readers
Like adults. Even if some of them don’t like it. Reihan Salam at National Review: I am a conservative, but I’m also of the view that exposing people to potentially new, unfamiliar, uncongenial, and perhaps even offensive ideas isn’t akin to exposing them to, say, some kind of deadly pollutant. That is, my working assumption is …
Thematic vs. eclectic blogging
Some blogs revel in eclecticism. Marginal Revolution comes to mind. Despite its broad thematic focus on economics, it embraces a sprawling set of interests, which largely reflects the eclectic genius of its primary writer, Tyler Cowen. In that sense, despite the fact that there are “themes”, MR revolves around an embrace of eclecticism. On the other end …
Keller’s suspicions are just wrong
By far the most obnoxious line in Bill Keller’s ornery new anti-social media New York Times Magazine column is this bit: The shortcomings of social media would not bother me awfully if I did not suspect that Facebook friendship and Twitter chatter are displacing real rapport and real conversation, just as Gutenberg’s device displaced remembering. This …
beyond the times 