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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Ada had once worked beside a chambermaid whose most treasured possession had been an embroidered handkerchief instructing her to live each day as if it were her last, but nothing had blighted her own life more thoroughly than the unwarranted assumption that it would soon be over.
Kahneman and Tversky first observed this effect in their 1973 paper where they noted that an information signal is salient (i.e., memorable) if it has characteristics that differ from the background or a past state.
The Behavioral Investor
Daniel Crosby
All motion is periodic and evolutionary. All motion is motion in equilibrium. No other motion is possible.
The Universal One
Walter Russell
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