“Reading Why Are We Yelling? is like having your most calm, level-headed friend explain how you might diffuse a tense situation in your life and work. I especially recommend this book to anyone who has ever tried to ‘win’ an argument only to end up frustrated with the results.” --...
It sounds like you building a 15 person team is not a typical size of people that come on this podcast. You’re building a legit team, legit sized team. What are your plans for the next year or so? Tyler:Plans are really to focus on allowing customers to create their own tattoos. W...
DUBNER: Levitt, talk for just a second about surge pricing generally as an economic concept. So let’s say there’s a big storm forecast and a hardware stores triples the price of flashlights and batteries, which in a lot of places is not allowed. There are, what are called,anti-gougi...
The reality is that most small animal cages you’ll find in pet stores are too small for guinea pigs. They need room to groove and separate areas for a nest, bathroom, and food and water. Otherwise, their cage will smell, and they’ll be unhappy and unhealthy. Therefore, the rule for...
So right now when you’re doing advances in this little alpha program, are you just focused on cash, or are you focused on all the other bits as well? Right now, that is a cash advance program. We’ve done partnerships with health care companies to offer creators discounts on health in...
What are the plans for the future? It sounds like you building a 15 person team is not a typical size of people that come on this podcast. You’re building a legit team, legit sized team. What are your plans for the next year or so? Tyler: Plans are really to focus on allowing ...
So indirectly, yes the reader is the ultimate customer, but from the publishers perspective, their “actual” customer, and the ones they care about the most, are the distributors and the bookstores. If you think of it that way, their motivations start to become a little more clear. ...
So anyway, just to come back to an initial questions do you think generally cooperatives are a good way for communities to create wealth? The idea of “socialized profits” (mind the word trap) – I find the idea compelling to make the employees the shareholders of their...
The thing is, even I have trouble believing this. Taken to the extreme, you would logically conclude that it is best to own virtually nothing, and live in monk-like simplicity in a commune. Sometimes it just feels so right to buy something. The justifications are so rich and intellectual-...
2. Safety — safety should be a major concern for all who travel to Hanoi. The stats warn about air quality with all of the scooters and cars used by so many people. More so, however, there are 30 — yes, 30 — deaths caused by vehicle accidents each day. What most consider to be...