Marcus Linder
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Is "futile busyness" good for us?
22 Jul 2010
The researchers proceed to argue that, unfortunately, most people will not be tempted by futile busyness, so there's a paternalistic case for governments and organisations tricking us into more activity: 'housekeepers may increase the happiness of their idle housekeepers by letting in some mice and prompting the housekeepers to clean up. Governments may increase the happiness of idle citizens by having them build...
*Steak*, by Mark Schatzker
21 Jul 2010
Roughly 98 percent of cattle do live to see the day the truck from the packing plant pulls up because antibiotics are mixed in with the feed to keep livers and guts from failing. A certain number are fated to die, however. Feedlot nutritionists, Williams explained, actually want to see a small percentage get sick, as "that way, they know they're pushing the feed to the edge." The ones that aren't dying are getting fat fast."...
Får vetenskapen människor att tänka om?
21 Jul 2010
Hur reagerar människor när de får höra att vetenskapliga resultat motsäger deras uppfattningar? Tyvärr verkar många ovilliga till omprövning: snarare försöker man bortförklara resultaten än att tänka om. Detta bekräftas i en ny studie, ”The Scientific Impotence Excuse: Discounting Belief-Threatening Scientific Abstracts”, publicerad i Journal of Applied Social Psychology: The scienti...
What’s up in innovation management: summer blogging
20 Jul 2010
One would think that innovation intellectuals out there would follow their own advice and take a break over summer, but July offers just as many interesting innovation blog posts as ever. Some interesting themes of the month are hints for finding the right problem to solve, more ideas on the relation between business model innovation and strategy and what drives entrepreneurs to perform....
Steve Jobs's Disastrous iPhone 4 Press Conference
20 Jul 2010
I watched with growing dismay and disbelief as Steve Jobs struggled through his press conference last week about the iPhone 4 dropped calls. Jobs has a rightly earned reputation as a remarkable communicator; indeed there has been at least one book written about his presentation style as something worthy of emulation. But his usual elegant combination of enthusiasm and sang-froid deserted him ...
Landmark Report about the Impact of Age and Education on the Distribution of Wealth
19 Jul 2010
“What does the distribution of wealth tell us about future retirement resources?” This report was produced by the IFS for the DWP. It is a well researched document and provides a valuable insight into the ownership of wealth in the UK. It is a long report, 90 pages, stuffed full of data. ...