Happiness Is Not Science or Math

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Happiness Is Not Science or Math

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Jan 28, 2020

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Happiness is more like poetry than algorithms. Transcript: http://nav.al/math

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Jan 28, 2020

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Naval on wealth and happiness. On Twitter at @naval.

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