Articles

Beliefs formed on insufficient evidence seem tough to move

By Jesse Frederik and Maurits Martijn

For more than a century, the advertising industry has been a stable 1.25% of total GDP.

By Matthew Ball

The idea that advantage has a shelf life is a fundamental part of growth

By Morgan Housel

The rhetorical style of any Twitter account that continues to gain followers converges on that of a fortune cookie.

By Eugene Wei

And then I left

By Sonya Dreizler

A large collection of incorrect estimates can arrive at the correct value as long as they are independent

By Daniel Sotiroff

Gardens need weeding, and so do financial plans

By Blair duQuesnay

Magic is a con job

By Tony Isola

A cartoon character changed the spinach consumption of an entire generation because of one mistaken study

By Nick Maggiulli

Behavioral economists are the patriots of finance. 

By Drew Dickson

The most ignored product-warning label in history

By Barry Ritholtz

Podcasts

The dude won three straight finals MVPs has become underrated

With Bill Simmons and J.A. Adande

The sales pitch that put us on the map

With Barry Ritholtz, David Booth, and Gene Fama

Scale has been completely redefined

With Patrick O’Shaughnessy and Daniel Ek

Phil Jackson told me to sit down and shut the fuck up

With Bill Simmons and Matt Damon

Books

Nobody knows quite how destructive human beings are, but it is a fact that over the last fifty thousand years or so wherever we have gone animals have tended to vanish, in often astonishingly large numbers. 

By Bill Bryson