Magnitude Matters

Summer travel season is quickly approaching. And this one promises to be crazy. On the supply side places are figuring out reopening on the ...

I know you want to do good, and I know you want to think that wanting to do good combined with doing something results in doing good. Unfort...

It is not because it brings about better outcomes for the best. It is because it is the most reliable method for bringing about better outco...

We don't just have wants; we have wants about our wants.                            --  T he philosophy of  Harry G. Frankfurt as chann...

Seinfeld, the greatest  sitcom in history (a title I don't give lightly), has a humor that I believe is timeless. However, most of the e...

How can you possibly have this without that ?  How can we have great TV without commercials that are viewed?  Journalism without newspapers...

L et's compare two general methods of improvement:  Truncating the left tail so as to eliminate the undesired portion of the distributio...