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... We've also made a small amount syndicating content to @Slate Prior to launching Full Stack Economics, I did some media consulting work for @shortwave, an email startup run by my brother, and earned $2,400. I offered to do this work for free but he said it was better to pay for legal reasons. ...
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... The authors here show that readiness to cooperate between individuals from different groups corresponds to the degree of cultural similarity between those groups. This is consistent with the theory of Cultural Group Selection as an explanation for the rise of human large-scale cooperation. ...
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... But that cheap credit hasn’t actually created any real resources, so you end up with increased spending on both capital and consumer goods. As a result, inflation starts to inch up, and central banks are forced to raise interest rates to cool things off. ...
... In the Austrian theory, a recession is a process of resource re-allocation from capital-intensive to capital-light industries. Society needs to produce fewer factories and machine tools and more beer and pairs of pants (or whatever). ...
... Instead of re-allocating workers and other resources from home building to other sectors, you suddenly had almost every industry laying off workers—even ones that were not capital intensive and did not see strong growth in the 2000s. ...
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... Then the idea that 1999 and 2006 were driven by unsustainable bubbles, as opposed to just being healthy economic booms, prevented people from recognizing how far the US economy was below potential from 2010 to 2015. ...
... I suspect that with better monetary policy 2006 probably could have been the middle of another 1990s-style boom rather than the end of a brief and weak recovery. ...
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... One use of Twitter: to post background information that I may use in columns and newsletters. So, a bit about market expectations of inflation. Right now, the yield on one-year inflation-protected Treasuries is -3.2% 1/ https://t.co/fl2zU5H36X The one-year rate on ordinary Treasuries is 0.48%. ...
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... Not all bad ideas come from the right 5/ ...
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... The mind net is about connecting thoughts and ideas within and between minds. Through these connections and visualizations of them, the mind net aims to unlock new possibilities of human understanding and innovation. ...
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... More specifically, a network of ideas, thoughts, propositions, observations, things that live in our minds. Imagine we can connect things in our minds with things in other people's minds. ...
... As explained by the book "Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation", being able to make connections between ideas in different minds has been critical for human innovations. ...
... To date, such connections are made through reading publications, which are very formal, linearly structured, and unilateral, or through conversations, which are casual, divergent, and rarely structured. ...
... Imagine if we have a medium that is specifically designed to facilitate connections between ideas in different minds. This medium is structured but allows easy divergence, multilateral and asynchronous. ...
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... Group conversations, online communities, and coffee shop conversations have been great for exchanging ideas, but these forms usually lack organization and structure. ...
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... [The net view](https://www.themind.net/mapItems/Hypothesis/348E44hASHa7AvgODCLkyg/net/?netViewMode=FormalGraph) ...
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... Group discussions, online communities, and coffee shop conversations are traditional ways for participants to exchange ideas. Ideas are usually freely bouncing around between participants. ...
... Ideas exchanged in such forms usually require a significant amount of later work (usually by a single individual) to be [organized into narrative structures](https://www.themind.net/observations/AfHZZXnNQmaVukmQ2I7EAw) that be easily consumed. ...
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... The mind net aim to make such links bi-directional. ...
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... Facilitate collaboration in thinking\, especially within spontaneously formed groups of people\. 2\. Facilitate distilling/transcending theories from atomic and spontaneously formed ideas within and between individuals\. The tools to achieve the above: 1\. Record thoughts\. 2\. ...
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... Human has been organizing thoughts/ideas in story-like linear ways since the beginning of human culture. Books, talks, and lectures are all examples of such organizations. It's not the only way we convey ideas, e.g. day to day conversations usually are more or less structure-free and spontaneous. ...
... Ideas are bouncing in all directions. In the Internet age, Twitter and other social media provide new ways to perform such conversations multilaterally, but they are not well structured. ...
... The mainstream way to communicate larger groups of thoughts/ideas in a structured way remains to be the linear structure as in books, lectures, podcasts, etc. Though they have two main shortcomings 1. ...
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