Monthly Archives: March 2012

Its not one big thing, but rather a lot of little things

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Today, early Facebook employee and now Quora founder, Charlie Cheer, came to Tepper to talk to us about his entrepreneurial experiences in the web 2.0 space.  He said a lot of interesting things, but one thing in particular I thought was quite smart and different.   When asked how Quora competes with Read more [...]

“That feeling can create its own reality.”

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Two very curious psychological phenomena have been whirling around in my mind when I started to see how much of human behavior might be explained by them.     The first is the concept of "loss aversion", which explains we often act in ways that minimize our expected losses rather than maximize our Read more [...]