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“Love the Refugees” : Why the Token Representative in Business and Culture works – a Market and Consumer Behavior Perspective

This post is about the power of the ‘token representative’. The image of the refugee of today, is replacing that of the mobster of yesterday. It is always easier (and more emotionally satisfying) to use ‘approximate thinking’ and remember a simplified story. Interestingly, this is flowing from cultural products like Film to other areas, including business and entrepreneurship…

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The Global Innovation Index 2022: Measurement, Growth, and Achieving Innovation Goals

Can Economists ruin Innovation with an Index? Thoughts on measuring innovation, growth, culture, and creativity.

The 2022 Global Innovation Index report released by WIPO has been published for 2022. Here are some of thoughts on the report, including a few comments and reflections on innovation, economic growth, measurement, and cultural resources.

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CRT : A Short Cognitive Ability Test that predicts (?) better mental skills

The Cognitive Reflection Test : A shortcut to measuring Intelligence

Can three innocent questions serve as a proxy for an intelligence test and predict cognitive ability? Even if not, it might be fun to play around with them, and reflect on what reflective thinking ability can teach us about our decision making and mental habits.

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WeWork Lessons : Excess & Market Behavior under extreme hope and fuzziness

The documentary : “WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn” is entertaining (if you don’t get angry easily), and contains an amazing exploration of the behavior of markets, consumers, and leaders. There are many hilarious moments too!

This documentary illustrates the dangers of excess, “hopium”, and building great castles on foundations of ‘fluff’. The top WeWork lessons explored in this article include excess, fuzziness, consumer (and investor) behavior, and spectacles.

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Country Brands [Or Place Brands]: An underutilized Cultural Resource

Country Brands can be a useful socio-economic resource. They are hard to ‘control’, but certain aspects of them can be understood and used to support markets and innovation.

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How to draw an Owl, Or “Why we don’t need to be told EXACTLY what to do”

I came across this comic image a while back. It is about drawing an owl – a step-by-step guide.

I will include it here so that you can learn too :

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The Still Head of the Staring Psychopath: On Click-y Headlines, Bad Science, and Approximations

I got a notification with a link to an article, and I was naturally inclined to check it out: https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/psychopathic-stare

How couldn’t I?

Breaking and important news… The headline itself is amazing :

Psychopaths don’t move their heads when talking

A new study found that people who scored high in certain psychopathic traits are more likely to limit head movements.

A ‘Psychopath’ staring (?) without moving his head
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The Idiot’s Haste: Shortcuts to Knowledge and Happiness – How to read 50 Books in one month, and ‘hack’ happiness?

Can you ‘hack’ knowledge and happiness ??

In a sense, it is OK to do dumb things… If you do them quickly enough.

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“Hack” Happiness – Shortcut #1

Have you tried a ‘happiness’ burger before?

I recently saw a post (apparently was going viral) titled : “How to Hack Happiness”. A guide in the form of a thread of tweets offered the final solution to humanity’s quests over thousands of years.