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TKC 547 Philosopher-Economist Tim Harford

TKC 547 Philosopher-Economist Tim Harford

FromThe Kindle Chronicles


TKC 547 Philosopher-Economist Tim Harford

FromThe Kindle Chronicles

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Length:
46 minutes
Released:
Jan 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives Interview starts at 15:43 and ends at 43:50 “You can be super clever and have all your tricks, but fundamentally everything in your life is crowding out something else in your life. At some point you have to choose, and the choice should be thoughtful.” News “The Prime Challenges for Amazon’s New Delivery Robot” by Matt Simon and Arielle Pardes Gear at Wired - January 23, 2019 “Meet Scout: Field testing a new delivery system with Amazon Scout” by Sean Scott at Amazon’s Day One blog - January 23, 2019 Tech Tip Starbucks Reorder skill for Alexa Interview with Tim Harford Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford “How frustration can make us more creative” - TED talk by Tim Harford in September, 2015 “Tim Harford: how behavioral economics helped kick my phone addiction” at The Financial Times - January 17, 2019 (Behind paywall, try Googling the title) Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport - Available for pre-order, to be delivered February 5, 2019 Feedly Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter - Available for pre-order at Amazon.co.uk to be delivered March 28, 2019 The Invention of  Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It by Chris Clearfield Marie Kondo’s website The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy BBC podcast by Tim Harford Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim Harford Fright Tonight Alexa skill Content Early Riser by Jasper Fforde - available for preorder (hardcover only) with delivery February 12, 2019 The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics by John Hickenlooper Next Week’s Guest Seth Godin, author of This Is Marketing: You Can’t be Seen Until You Learn to See Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads! Right-click here and then click "Save Link As..." to download the audio to your computer, phone, or MP3 player.
Released:
Jan 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

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