Correcting a Nobel Prize Winner

Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize in Economics yesterday.

Earlier this year I was at Barnes & Noble and I happened to pick up the paperback edition of his 2015 work, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. I do not know if I ever formed an opinion of the book, it was a good read and the prose was nice and readable, but I just never knew what to make of the name-dropping and the semi-questionable methods he used at reaching conclusions. Scenarios such as "I have a college kid ten one dollar bills to see how much he would be willing to pay for a cup of coffee" are just too controlled for me. By the way, I made up that example, but it is not far off from the examples throughout the book. People like the book, so be it.

Anyway, while I was at it, as I always do, I point out errors in books, whether a library book or a book in a bookstore. Here are five errors that I caught. Further, I was surprised these errors did not get corrected after the hardback edition, for a book that sold so well. You're welcome.

p. 99 - "starting" should be "started"

p. 211 there needs to be an "a" in there

p. 232 "be" should be "been"

p. 314 "to issue" is only needed once

(lower right, pencil circle is thin and light)

p. 385 the year is wrong on that reference, it was written in 1985, not 1996

This Post...You Won't Believe What Happens Next

Posting two versions of the same image from Instagram, but both were posted by different accounts. The captions and comments are mostly pretty funny, a nice parody of what clickbait actually does look like on social media, the web, etc.

27 hot moms are dying to meet you

A post shared by Chill Blinton (@chillblinton) on Aug 15, 2017 at 2:31pm PDT

Judges hate him! Inmate leaves this wretched world using this one weird simple trick! #lmfaooo

A post shared by Aaquil Abdul-Jabbar عبد الجبار (@black.tom.brady) on Oct 6, 2017 at 4:37am PDT

More of us Need to Walk Away From the Pointless

I saw this on Instagram today and I thought it was perfect. More often than not, walking away is the right thing to do. If more of us did this, we could make the internet, and social media by extension, a more meaningful place for debate, discussion, and dialogue.

A post shared by 🐐 The Judas Goat 🐐 (@running_with_scissors_941) on Sep 4, 2017 at 6:04pm PDT

Great Points Made in Hurricane Harvey Rescue Image

There are probably few who have not seen the iconic image of the man carrying the women and her baby through knee-deep waters in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey in Houston. Some themes developed in the wake of this image going world wide, and of course some great points are made.
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A post shared by @nohollysjustamexiqueen on Aug 29, 2017 at 9:03pm PDT

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Another #Feminist FAIL...

A post shared by Ann Kennedy (@american_exceptionalism) on Sep 1, 2017 at 9:14pm PDT

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Eclipse!

I am not one of those people that was overly enamored with the eclipse. What did amaze me about the eclipse, and did actually surprise me, was the amount of attention given to the eclipse, especially by schools and students.

There was plenty of social media attention given to the eclipse, which can be good and bad and often irrelevant. Part of this coverage included kids and schools that were making special effort to see the eclipse and to teach about it, and to also protect young eyes from staring right at the eclipse without proper eye wear.

If this eclipse got these kids, any kids, to give thought to big ideas in their world, then that is awesome. These might be the kids that go on to study medicine or science or just attempt discovery. Again, this is a great thing. Maybe these kids reach for the stars and are behind the next great idea is space travel, maybe these kids develop medicines that alleviate certain pains or maybe these kids cure a disease or illness in their lifetimes.

It is a lot to ask of an event like an eclipse, but this is what dreaming and discovery and learning is really all about. And maybe this eclipse, an event we cannot control, change or alter, affected a fraction of a percent of the millions of children that observed it with awe and wonder. That is a great thing, and I am even more intrigued by this than I was about the eclipse itself.

I recently read a book by Ben Sasse called The Vanishing American Adult. I sincerely commend it to you. I mention that book here because the need to develop better, more capable adults in our society is an ultimate outcome of getting our kids to read and discover and wonder and dream...and even to venture outside their tiny circles, be they personal or online, and reach beyond their comfort zones.

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I might deflate my entire point now, but this Instagram post made me laugh and I am still laughing over this one.

Pretty much all I saw 😂😂😂 #nutsquad

A post shared by The Meme King (@laughsfromthe6) on Aug 22, 2017 at 7:49am PDT

Adrian Beltre’s Journey to 3,000

I have posted some thoughts at Medium about Adrian Beltre reaching the 3,000 hit mark earlier today. I invite you to take a look.

Adrian Beltre’s Journey to 3,000

Interview on The Price of Business 7-5-17

I joined Kevin Price on The Price of Business for two segments to talk about a variety of political things, including these early days of the Trump presidency. Both segments can be easily streamed right on the page.