Human Stupidity
The Planning Fallacy: Why Everything Takes Longer Than You Think
The Sydney Opera House was supposed to take six years to build and cost seven million dollars. It took fourteen years and cost 102 million dollars. The Sco…
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Human Stupidity
The Sydney Opera House was supposed to take six years to build and cost seven million dollars. It took fourteen years and cost 102 million dollars. The Sco…
Human Psychology
In the 1960s, Martin Seligman and Steven Maier were conducting experiments with dogs, running standard classical conditioning procedures involving mild ele…
Rise of America
By 1980, the United States was in a bad mood. Inflation had been running in double digits. The economy was mired in stagflation — the combination of high…
Philosophy
Arthur Schopenhauer was the pessimistic counterpoint to Hegel’s optimism. He argued that the world is not a rational, progressive unfolding, but the mani…
Human Stupidity
People are more afraid of flying than driving, even though driving is dramatically more dangerous per mile traveled. People buy lottery tickets — a tax o…
Philosophy
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a polymath and optimist, famously argued that we live in the "best of all possible worlds." This claim, later satirized by Volta…
Rise of America
The nineteen twenties in America were years of dizzying transformation in the texture of everyday life. The automobile went from novelty to necessity. Radi…
Adventure
One Piece shattered the "curse" of bad anime adaptations when it premiered in 2023. The live-action series captured the spirit of Eiichiro Oda's beloved ma…