On reading Dan Ariely’s Predictably Irrational

Simon @ March 18, 2008 # One Comment

Loved this. Dan Ariely is a behavioural economist - which basically means…well, I’m not quite sure what it means [find out here ]. But, for the purposes of this book, it means he gets to look at why people consistently do things which are apparently irrational or inconsistent or both.
Like - why some people are [...]

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On reading Clay Shirky’s ‘Here comes everybody’

Simon @ March 7, 2008 # 2 Comments

I’m a terrible book reviewer. So this isn’t a review. It’s just a bullet point burst through what’s in my mind having just put the book down having galloped through it over the last 24 hours.
So - my plus ponts

He’s terrifically readable, and very quotable. I found myself making marks in the margins [...]

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