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Put aside the people with small (and not so small) children at home, and observe whether the pandemic has boosted or destroyed their productivity.  That is one measure for how they handle stress, and whether you might wish to trust them with a start-up or some other major project requiring quick adaptation and performance under […] The post The world is running a disturbing...

Here is the transcript and audio, here is part of the summary: Tim joined Tyler to discuss the role of popular economics in a politicized world, the puzzling polarization behind Brexit, why good feedback is necessary (and rare), the limits of fact-checking, the “tremendously British” encouragement he received from Prince Charles, playing poker with Steve […] The post My Conversation with Tim Harford appeared...

This one is better than the other available conversations with Reid, here is the transcript and audio.  Here is part of the CWTeam summary: Reid joined Tyler to talk about all these leverage points and more, including the Silicon Valley cultural meme he most disagrees with, how Wittgenstein influenced the design of LinkedIn, mystical atheism, […] The post My Conversation with the excellent Reid...

Time spent on social media has been blamed for increased suicides and depression, just as were other new technologies and pastimes such as phones and Dungeons and Dragons. … but is social media the real culprit? Or are we engaged in a moral panic, perhaps not understanding the root of the problem? One major limitation […] The post Do Social Media Harm the Mental...

Robert Sapolsky, who studies stress in primates at Stanford University, says a chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament, three times what an average person consumes in a day. Based on breathing rates (which triple during competition), blood pressure (which elevates) and muscle contractions before, during and […] The post The chess diet appeared first on...