Free Agent, Professor, and Superforecaster
When you search for empathy on Google, you get almost 10,000,000 results. When you search for sympathy on Google, you get almost 25,000,000 results. I bet if we could look at historical search results in Google, I bet that we’d see a big trend where the number of search results for empathy has been increasing. …
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In the first post in this series, we looked at the definition of social entrepreneurship. In the second post in this series, we looked at the definition of externalities. In the third post, we looked at some solutions to externalities. In today’s post, the last in this series, we’ll look at the cross-section of social …
I enjoyed sharing the work that I’d done several years ago curating those quotes from various religious scriptures into a number of posts. As a result, it got me thinking of some of the other papers I’ve wrote and whether they’d be appropriate to share here. Since I just finished an MBA, I’ve gone through …
In skimming through this week’s The Economist, I noticed a rather intriguing letter. I’ve included it below: Go west! SIR – I am a water-treatment operator in Fort McMurray, in the heart of Alberta’s oil-sands country, and I read your piece about our boom town (“The sands of grime”, November 17th). There are labour shortages here …
I’ve mentioned before that I’m working at Ashoka for the summer. As I don’t currently live in Rossyln, I take the Metro to get to work. As I don’t yet have an iPhone or an iPad (with which to read something on), I’ve kept my subscription to The Economist. As I was reading last week’s …
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I had a moment of “world’s colliding” this afternoon when I sat down to catch up on some reading I started quite a while ago. The passage is worth repeating, so I thought I’d include it and then get back to the “world’s colliding” part. The important point about the principle of compassion, as a …
Jeremiah Stanghini 