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Yale Marketing Seminar
ByadminA few weeks ago I presented my talk, “Of Two Minds”, at a Marketing Seminar for the Yale School of Business. Check it out:
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Thomas Jefferson, On Being Afraid of Girls
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What is depression treatment worth?
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More….The Pain of Anticipation
ByadminIn a recent edition of the New Yorker, the magazine published a story by Dashiell Hammett and one of the paragraphs in that wonderful story nicely captures the way that waiting for something bad to happen can be worse than experiencing that bad thing. In the scene, a group of people stand on the sidewalk…