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The Economics of the Car you Drive

ctreada wrote 2 days ago: Managerial accounting was one of my favorite classes in business school.  It was the class that cove … more →

Tags: Saving Money, Cars

Dream #22 comments

babelt wrote 4 days ago: Sunrise I have been playing a tug of war with myself for the past three years. These are the questio … more →

Tags: Thailand, Travel, Belief, Business, Dreams, Starting A Business, Work

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thewaterworks wrote 5 days ago: Espionage and subversion. Even if valid, conventional wisdom can be made invalid by undermining the … more →

Tags: Uncategorized

We must get rid of Julio Lugo

John Gugarty wrote 6 days ago: Seemingly ever since the Red Sox acquired him, Julio Lugo has been a bone of contention for many Bos … more →

Tags: Baseball, Red Sox, Julio Lugo, Sabermetrics

I sometimes wonder...2 comments

John Gugarty wrote 1 week ago: …if part of the reason that sabermetrically inclined analysis hasn’t made its way into b … more →

Tags: Baseball, Red Sox, Sabermetrics

Welcome!

John Gugarty wrote 1 week ago: You’ve got mail! Err, blog, as the case may be. Since I’ve recently found myself becomin … more →

Tags: Blog, twitter

Matt Taibbi rips Fareed Zakaria1 comment

Tim Weaver wrote 1 week ago: I have always felt a strong, inexplicable pull towards liking and agreeing with Fareed Zakaria, with … more →

Tags: blogs vs. journalism, Fareed Zakaria, favorite political blogger, i love matt taibbi, jonathan alter, Matt Taibbi, matt taibbi column, Newsweek article, Politics

Male vanity comes of age (3)

riomay1962 wrote 2 weeks ago: Bad practices  Like people at My Beauty Hub, King and her colleagues at Nivea have taken pains to co … more →

Tags: bad idea, Junking Soap, More Expensive Skin Cleansers, More Oil, More Sophisticated Skin, Alcohol-based Astringents, astringents, Bad Practices, Deadly Cycle

Conventional Wisdom

cmusico wrote 3 weeks ago: OK, I’m no Einstein … or even this precious London girl who has a ridiculously high IQ, … more →

Tags: Work, Analysts, Common Sense, einstein, Moron, Research

Deborah's List2 comments

OverratedList wrote 1 month ago: 1. Conventional wisdom 2. Approval 3. Oprah 4. Homeownership (Deborah / Alameda, CA / Age 50) … more →

Tags: déborah, approval, homeownership, Oprah

Economists Making Sense

terence wrote 1 month ago: “The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.” – Joh … more →

Tags: Ramblings and Musings, John Kenneth Galbraith

Mike Scioscia is making me crazy1 comment

sabrtooth wrote 1 month ago: Sabermetrics has come around on the stolen base a bit. Back in the Moneyball era, the steal was a no … more →

Tags: Regular Posts, ANGELS, base stealing, Base/Run Expectancy, Kenji Johjima, Markov Chains, Mike Scioscia, Torii Hunter

1 year, 2 months, 12 days1 comment

musajen wrote 1 month ago: That long ago, on March 8th, 2008, I lost a friend. He died from complications about a month after g … more →

Tags: Diet, health, Food, gastric bypass, obesity, Fat, Gary Taubes, Tom Naughton, Low Fat

Can the Mind Shape the Brain?2 comments

mind123 wrote 1 month ago: Conventional wisdom holds that the human mind is nothing more than the human brain. This belief deri … more →

Tags: Awareness, Perception, Personal perception, Philosophy, The Brain, The Mind, Beliefs, brain, human mind

My 100th Post5 comments

purecommonsense wrote 1 month ago: I can’t believe that I have already done 100 posts on Pure Common Sense!  Time sure does fly by very … more →

Tags: Common Sense

The process of doubting

sherfelad wrote 2 months ago: photo by ktylerconk “I doubt, therefore I am” René Descartes Today, I was part of a p … more →

Tags: Management, General Thoughts, Seth Godin, The Process, Decision Making, Doubt

Conventional wisdom and peak oil

Liz wrote 2 months ago: Freakonomics blog takes a look at what happens when circumstances shift too rapidly for the dominant … more →

Tags: Journalism, Energy

The Food Police Were Wrong, Again!

Zachary Cohen wrote 2 months ago: I am a contrarian by nature. I see great heaps of people doing one thing, I usually do the opposit … more →

Tags: Food Writing, Food Blogs, Traditional Wisdom

Confused by Conventional Wisdom

truthdriven wrote 2 months ago: So as a regular guy from Kalamazoo, imagine my confusion trying to understand the collection of conv … more →

Tags: Articles/Essays, emotion-driven, Reason, Truth, Critical Thinking, Scientific Method


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