Tag: so that’s why

I majored in philosophy in college. At Princeton nearly all liberal arts majors (and many of the engineering students too) have to write a senior thesis to graduate. I was interested in philosophy of language and wrote a thesis called “Is Metaphor Necessary for Communication?” In it I argued that metaphor was much more than…

I’m here at SXSW Interactive and I’m scattering my blog notes to various blogs, depending on the topic and relevancy. This one is kind of general and about psychology so I’m stowing it here Raw notes from the Daniel Gilbert Presentation: How to Do Precisely the Right Thing at All Possible Times: standing in a…

Is knowing what to ignore.

My blogdaughter, Frances, sent me a blog meme that sounds like fun: Yahoo! 360 – Good Bloggin’ West – Five Weird Habits of Highly Effective People… OK, so here are five of my weird habits: When someone’s voice or way of talking sounds funny to me I, almost involuntarily, imitate them under my breath. Sometimes,…

File under “you learn something new every day”: The transition to full night happens when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon. Source: Joe Flower in the Well’s ‘current’ conference.

D-squared Digest explains why bubble markets don’t pop as soon as we might expect.