It isn't true that facts never change minds. They just don't change minds that are already made up.
If you see your ideas as identities to defend, you twist and resist data to rationalize your views.
If you treat ideas as hunches to test, you embrace data to update your views.
FED CHAIR POWELL SAYS HAVING AN UNACCOUNTABLE GROUP OF PRIVATE EMPLOYEES SETTING MONETARY POLICY WOULD BE BAD, NOT REALIZING THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HIS OUTFIT IS - CSPAN
The realization that we've been locked at home for seven weeks merely to get to a point of treading water - and that we don't have any national plan to do better than that - is just maddening. Just a historic failure of leadership.
Are you ready for something truly insane?
Farmers aren’t allowed to repair their own tractors without paying an authorized John Deere repair agent.
I think the person who bought that machinery has a right to fix that damn piece of machinery.
You know, instead of training children, teachers, houses of faith, & concertgoers to prep for being shot, we could just:
-Pass Universal Background checks (#HR8!)
-Disarm domestic abusers
-Mandate safe storage
-Ban bump stocks, semiautos, & high cap mags designed to kill people
You cannot claim that a health care system in which more than 42% of cancer patients lose their life savings within 2 years is a system that works. It is a moral outrage.
We need Medicare for All, and we need it now.
1/ The future is a probability distribution- almost nothing is certain. Investing is fundamentally a probabilistic exercise. You can have an excellent decision making process in making an investment and still have an unfavorable outcome. H/T Howard Marks and Michael Mauboussin
Dorsey and his weird beard-shirt combo, Alex Jones, a congressional staffer wearing Google Glass, and a journalist wearing an 1980s Casio watch.
This has to be the most hilariously dystopian picture of the year.
If every major country on earth can guarantee health care to all and achieve better health outcomes, while spending substantially less per capita than we do, it is absurd for anyone to suggest that the United States of America cannot do the same. https://t.co/EKmPY7iTgC
Elon Musk: I'm going to use my wealth to fund ... space travel!
Jeff Bezos: I'm going to use my wealth to fund ... space travel!
LeBron James: I'm going to use my wealth to ... build a public school that helps students and their parents!