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Freakishly Interesting Economic Theory

March 8, 2010

My never-ending quest to understand the world around me – and my love of a good story – led me to read the Freakonomics sequel, Super Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. I liked the first one much better. I’m not sure if it’s because the first one was actually better or

Getting to Great

March 7, 2010

A man interested in going to my alma mater, NYU’s Stern Business School, emailed me to ask advice about making himself POP on its waiting list. He wanted to stand out. After an hour of my no-doubt-highly-insightful advice, Aaron Butler recommended that I read “Good to Great” by Jim Collins. He even reminded me to

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