In the May issue of the magazine “Around the World,” there was… published article Alexandra Sergeeva It will be available to everyone starting in August 2010, however, I thought the essence of this article would be very interesting to my readers. I am publishing it here because I reference it Continue Reading
Quotes
This section contains texts that were not written by me, but to which I refer and that serve as good illustrations of my ideas, among others.
High financial policy, or the point of indifference
(Parkinson’s Laws) Cyril N. Parkinson In high finance, there are two types of people: those who have a lot of money and those who have nothing. A millionaire knows exactly what a million is. For an applied mathematician or an economics professor (who, of course, live on a shoestring), a Continue Reading
Learning is light.
You can run promotional campaigns. You can hire salespeople. You can act as a sponsor. However, your competitors are doing the same. How can this help you stand out from the rest?Instead of trying to spend more than they do, hire more salespeople than they do, or sponsor more money Continue Reading
Press releases are spam.
What do you call an announcement sent to hundreds of strangers in the hope that one of them will take notice? Spam. That’s exactly what press releases are: announcements that you send to hundreds of journalists you don’t know, hoping that one of them will write about you. Let’s take Continue Reading
Fines and kindergarten
Original article: http://eduardk.livejournal.com/294267.html Original scientific work: Uri Gneezy en Aldo Rustichini, ‘A Fine Is A Price’, Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 29, Issue 1 (2000). Full text. AbstractThe deterrence hypothesis predicts that the introduction of a penalty, which leaves everything else unchanged, will reduce the likelihood of the behavior being Continue Reading
The economic effect of “sticking” in nine experiments
Table of Contents Toggle People often consciously choose the worst possible outcome for themselves. They are guided not by rational economic principles or other non-monetary factors, but by what is known in economics as the “sunk cost effect.” The sticking effect: Experiment 1 The costs of sticking: experiment 2 The Continue Reading
Inter-Net! Why was a nationwide computer network not created in the Soviet Union?
Published in the journal: “Inviolable Reserve” 2011, No. 1(75) Vyacheslav GerovichVyacheslav Alexandrovich Gerovich (b. 1963) is a historian of science and a lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston, USA). He previously worked at the Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Continue Reading
Seer. Using games to glimpse the future.
Article from New Scientist , which I have for you translated Текст для перевода: .. MY HOROSCOPE for this week claims that now is the perfect time for me to move or, at the very least, to get organized. I know it’s pointless, but that won’t stop me from dreaming Continue Reading
Use restrictions.
I don’t have enough time/money/people/experience. Stop whining. Less is more. Limitations are advantages, not problems. Limited resources force you to get things done with what you have. You don’t have room for unnecessary expenses, and that includes your creativity. We all know that inmates can make weapons out of a Continue Reading
Custom tailoring, not mass production.
If your business is successful, people will try to copy what you do. It’s just a law of life. However, there is a great way to protect yourself from copycats: Makeсебя.Make your product or service unique by incorporating your distinctive way of thinking into what you sell. Create a custom Continue Reading