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Dan Connors
Jun 3, 20214 min read
Are we capable of making our own choices anymore?
Through most of recorded history, humans have stumbled along with choices that were ill-informed, random, faulty, and occasionally...
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Dan Connors
May 24, 20215 min read
We are all freeloaders
Americans these days are very concerned about freeloaders. Freeloaders, also known as "free riders" in economic parlance, enjoy the...
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Dan Connors
May 11, 20214 min read
Refilling the pool- how immigration and diversity enriches us all.
The St. Louis region is stagnating, as the 2020 census will soon reveal. Much of the problem starts at the core- the city of St. Louis. ...
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Dan Connors
Apr 20, 20214 min read
What have we learned from Covid-19?
Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World Fareed Zakaria 2020 The Covid-19 epidemic may well turn out to be a transformational event for...
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Dan Connors
Apr 17, 20217 min read
Think you know it all, eh? Think again bucko!
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know Adam Grant 2021 How do we know what we know? Can we be...
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Dan Connors
Apr 14, 20214 min read
White men- Heroes or entitled mediocrities?
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America Ijeoma Oluo 2020 We like to think that in some important way that the world...
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Dan Connors
Apr 7, 20213 min read
Here's how to stick it to Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos- the richest man in the world is at $188.6 Billion and counting. He makes approximately $321 million per day and rules an...
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Dan Connors
Mar 16, 20214 min read
The multiplier effect- how one check can help many people.
"Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow."...
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Dan Connors
Feb 6, 20216 min read
Surviving Death
Death. We all avoid thinking about it or talking about it because it's unknown and scary. But there's something about winter that makes...
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Dan Connors
Jan 31, 20215 min read
Post Corona- How will our world change?
Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity Scott Galloway 2020 Our world has been changing rapidly for decades...
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Dan Connors
Jan 30, 20215 min read
Why we need consequences for being wrogn
Was a secret cabal of Satan-worshiping, cannibalistic pedophiles running a global child sex-trafficking ring about to be exposed and...
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Dan Connors
Jan 7, 20217 min read
The World Happiness Report and the secret sauce of Scandinavia
Imagine a poll of every country in the entire world where someone goes to random citizens and asks them to rate their happiness on a...
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Dan Connors
Jan 2, 20214 min read
An Outsiders Guide to Humans- how an autistic person makes sense of the rest of us
An Outsider's Guide to Humans: What Science Taught Me about What We Do and Who We Are Camilla Pang 2020 Camilla Pang was diagnosed...
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Dan Connors
Dec 31, 20205 min read
College- good investment or money down the toilet?
We are throwing more and more money and bright young minds into the confusing cesspool that is today's higher education system, and what...
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Dan Connors
Dec 23, 20204 min read
Normalcy Bias- the Pandemic's biggest killer
When the Titanic hit an iceberg and started sinking, the people aboard were shocked. Most of them were in denial that this grand ship,...
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Dan Connors
Dec 10, 202012 min read
Who are the suckers who fall for self-deceptions? We are. Cognitive biases part 4
Does the truth matter? Which is better- an ugly truth or a pretty lie? Sometimes it's better for everybody if the truth is ugly enough...
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Dan Connors
Dec 2, 202011 min read
Why are we lying to ourselves? Cognitive biases part 3
"Self-deception is a defining part of our human nature. By recognizing its various forms in ourselves and reflecting upon them, we may be...
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Dan Connors
Nov 29, 20209 min read
Cognitive biases Part 2- pulling back the curtain on why our brains lie to us.
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.” ― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works Our brains lie to...
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Dan Connors
Nov 25, 20209 min read
Why we lie to ourselves- Cognitive Biases Part 1
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the...
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Dan Connors
Nov 20, 20205 min read
Lotteries- a pocket full of hope but poison for mental and financial health.
State lotteries are a complicated source of joy, pain, education funding, hope, and disappointment. 45 of the 50 United States now have...
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