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In lists of logical fallacies, you will fnd included “the genetic fallacy”—the fallacy of attacking a belief based on someone’s causes for believing it.
Rationality: From AI to Zombies
Eliezer Yudkowsky
People think startups grow out of some brilliant initial idea like a plant from a seed. But almost all the founders I interviewed changed their ideas as they developed them. PayPal started out writing encryption software, Excite started as a database search company, and Flickr grew out of an online game.
Founders at Work
Jessica Livingston
At the level of the family, the ideal of marriage as a union that must be preserved through thick and thin is being undermined by a view that marriage is an economic contract that sets out the expectations of the parties involved and can be readily annulled if either party does not feel it is getting its expected returns from the exchange.
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices
Paul R. Lawrence; Nitin Nohria
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