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In the future most people will have no choice but to continuously learn new skills, so it will be essential to train students and adults about how to learn efficiently. With the technological revolution there are new opportunities to make teaching more effective.
Peak
Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
In present value terms, it hardly matters whether an enterprise will shut down forty years from now or never, as long as the end is not near, in the next decade or two. An income of $8 a year forever, discounted at 8 percent, is worth $100, while the same annual income for seventy-five years would round up to $100. Rounding to the nearest dollar, an annual income of $8 a year for thirty, twenty, and ten years would be worth $90, $79, and $54, respectively. Of course you want to avoid businesses whose lives are nasty, brutish, and short. Beyond a certain point, though, added years provide little benefit; what companies achieve in that interim matters more.
Big Money Thinks Small
Joel Tillinghast
I share this with Wendell as the minutes wind down in our final session. “Let’s consider this a pause in the conversation,” I say. “Like every week, but longer.” I tell him I may come back one day, because it’s true; people leave and come back at different times in their lives. And when they do, the therapist is still there, sitting in the same chair, holding all of their shared history. “We can still consider it a pause,” Wendell replies, then adds the part that’s hardest to say. “Even if we don’t meet again.” I smile, knowing exactly what he means. Relationships in life don’t really end, even if you never see the person again. Every person you’ve been close to lives on somewhere inside you. Your past lovers, your parents, your friends, people both alive and dead (symbolically or literally)—all of them evoke memories, conscious or not. Often they inform how you relate to yourself and others. Sometimes you have conversations with them in your head; sometimes they speak to you in your sleep.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Lori Gottlieb
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