People who Exercise Win More Lotteries
I guess you have read about the tremendous impacts that exercise has on people. Its beneficial effects include making you live longer, experiencing much better health including less disease and reducing your chances of getting Alzheimer’s. Research shows that it even makes your brain bigger through growth of new neurons, and actually improves your cognitive capacity and mental performance. Of course, like any […]
Are cognitive biases contagious?
So cognitive biases are the beating heart of behavioral economics and finance. But where do they come from? Are they innate or learned? Or are they epigenetic, some complex combination of the two where environmental factors trigger a gene for one or more of them? But there’s another possibility, namely that you catch them. Yep […]
Yo! – Is Exercise the Secret to Silicon Valley’s Success?
I’ve just been reading about the Yo app. You know the one whose only job is to text you the word “Yo”. It doesn’t get much briefer than that. But who knows. Maybe it will get a billion dollar valuation too and make me at least look like a total fool. There are lots of […]