Monday, November 3, 2014

lessons from 'freakonomics'

currently reading
"Freakonomics" - by Levitt & Dubner

kept jotting down the lessons in my language or code words to remember for long time............thought u would love to read too
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- everything is (or isn't) because of some incentive

- every "conventional wisdom" is a myth

- world is a astronaumical mix of "butterfly effects"

- elephant effects must be obvious, too

- how u look at the data is what it tells u

- economics decides everything

- economics and technology can solver any problem

- there is no truth.....only convenient truth

- perception is the reality

- life is unfair, world is unbalanced, manind is unequal

- goats are born to be milked

- goats are born to be scapegoats

- go to ground zero and check

- demand and supply still decides it

- the whole world is caught in a tournament it knows it has no chance of winning

- try something different to have any chance of making it

- inability to innovate quickly and sufficiently is the world's problem

- time changes the game before u master the rules

- risk vs reward is only for the ruled

- world is the sum total of gangs

- it's all about money, honey!