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Misaligned in the Market 3: Indifference Over Good (opens the original)
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Misaligned in the Market 2: Popularity over Beauty (opens the original)
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Misaligned in the Market 1: Bullshit over Truth (opens the original)
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In the mid 1980s, the late philosopher Harry Frankfurt penned a short essay titled “On Bullshit.” Two decades later, that essay came out as a book with the same title. Published at a moment when the public was acutely questioning the political rhetoric of its leaders (sound familiar?), the book caught fire. Immediately, a philosopher previously known among his tweed-bearing colleagues was landing appearances on 60 Minutes and The Daily Sho
The beauty of the game (opens the original)
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The Craft of Deep Value (opens the original)
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Growing up as the son of a pastor and social worker, I never quite knew what to make of the work that happened “in the market.” Not that I even knew what to call it. Business? Working in an office? Doing something in sales? If my parents’ work seemed to have an inherent, deep value that I could wrap my head around, the work of my friends’ parents in business had a kind of abstract allure. Still, the contrast between that possibility and the observed long march of people unloading from the Metra
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