December 2010
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Instapaper's Instant Success
I recently purchased an iPad to make long trips more enjoyable, and I’ve found myself using one app in particular a lot — Instapaper. It’s a simple, popular bookmarking tool which allows you to save articles/pages for reading later (by downloading the whole article to your devices). There’s been a lot of bookmarking applets and tools before so it’s interesting to...
Holiday Misgivings - Gift Giving Economics
Most interesting to me is that people value gifts significantly less than the retail value.
“Leadership is about doing the possible, not sitting around and waiting for the...”
– Michael Bloomberg
Behavioral Economics Behind The Best Gifts →
What these principles tell us is that the best gifts circumvent guilt in two key ways. They eliminate the guilt that accompanies extravagant purchases, and they reduce the guilt that comes from coupling payment with consumption. That’s why gift certificates for dinner, drinks, iTunes, movies and so on are so popular. They not only encourage people to experience something new, they let them...