Bertie commented on the post, Youth employment is not a problem!, on the site Read This! 1 day, 19 hours ago
Vielen Dank für Ihre Anmerkungen. Natürlich haben Sie recht. Dennoch ist das Phänomen bemerkenswert! Bitte weiter besuchen und kommentieren!
Bertie commented on the post, How good are you at finding the truth?, on the site Read This! 4 days, 20 hours ago
Hi Tian, I am refining the text with inputs from you and Chris. There are two ways of addressing the issue. One is pedantic logic: The wording says nothing of there being another letter on the back, only about […]
Bertie wrote a new post, Youth employment is not a problem!, on the site Read This! 4 days, 20 hours ago
Well it certainly is in southern Europe and most emerging markets and especially South Africa.
BUT NOT in Germany.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ for short), which regular readers will by now know […]
Bertie commented on the post, How good are you at finding the truth?, on the site Read This! 4 days, 20 hours ago
The austerity debate is clearly not over. Keynes prevailed in the crisis when the alternative was to horrible to stomach. I don’t think one should mix two issues: emergency measures at the hight of the crisis and […]
Bertie commented on the post, How good are you at finding the truth?, on the site Read This! 4 days, 20 hours ago
I omitted to state that of course “playing” should be removed from the text.
Bertie wrote a new post, The Hummer or the Prius?, on the site Read This! 5 days, 20 hours ago
Things are not always as they seem. I was most amused last week when a client and friend who recently finished first in his MBA year at a top Business School in South Africa recounted the following case study they […]
Bertie commented on the post, How good are you at finding the truth?, on the site Read This! 5 days, 20 hours ago
“Obtuticity” will bring you nowhere, Chris!
I find Niall Ferguson’s works lucid, rational and broadminded. His The Ascent of Money is one of the major historical overviews I have ever read. His account of the […]
Bertie commented on the post, How good are you at finding the truth?, on the site Read This! 5 days, 22 hours ago
Hi Chris, I am not sure what you mean by saying that all your cards are identical on one side? You must turn over E, because the rule states that if it has a vowel on the one side, it should have an even number […]
Bertie wrote a new post, How good are you at finding the truth?, on the site Read This! 1 week, 3 days ago
Buffet clearly understand that you it is more important to look for facts that disprove your notions or theories than for instance that support your opinion – if you want to find the truth of the […]
Bertie commented on the post, What Darwin taught Buffet, on the site Read This! 1 week, 3 days ago
Hi Chris. thinking in falsification mode is extremely difficult, it’s more than will power that’s at stake, wee seem to have a psychological barrier against so thinking. By far the most difficult question in the […]
Bertie wrote a new post, What Darwin taught Buffet, on the site Read This! 1 week, 5 days ago
Pay attention to information that seems to disprove your beliefs!
Darwin had the habit of writing down contradictory information within 30 minutes of coming across it, not doing this, he said, allowed the brain […]
Bertie commented on the post, Would (could you!) you have responded to this ad?, on the site Read This! 1 month ago
Hi Chris, once again, wouldn’t you like to write a guest blog for me on the subject?
Bertie commented on the post, Would (could you!) you have responded to this ad?, on the site Read This! 1 month ago
I Chris, it is certainly similar to the Dunning-Kruger effect. Of course sometimes the uninitiated do see the emperor lacking clothes much more clearly than the uninitiated. And yes, I noted the Reinhart Rogofff […]
Bertie wrote a new post, Would (could you!) you have responded to this ad?, on the site Read This! 1 month ago
The founder of Atari, and the guy who gave Steve Jobs his first job wrote one of the most refreshing books on recruiting and retaining staff that I have come across in a very long time.
The book is Finding the […]
Bertie commented on the post, For sure the richest philosopher in the world, on the site Read This! 1 month ago
Hi Chris, thanks for pointing this out. I concede the second one. Re the debate on deflation / inflation I saw the televised debate between him an Niall Ferguson on the topic and I think Krugman is somewhat over […]
Bertie wrote a new post, For sure the richest philosopher in the world, on the site Read This! 1 month ago
That is how Die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Germany’s premier pro Merkel newspaper, my favourite reading on a Sunday morning describes George Soros.
Two issues in the interview intrigued me.
The first […]
Bertie wrote a new post, Much maligned, BUT!, on the site Read This! 1 month, 1 week ago
But poorly understood. It has been called the first book on sociology and still the best – after 500 years. It is the book that you cannot do without if you want to understand how political power works and how to […]
Bertie commented on the post, The curse of recycling bins, on the site Read This! 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Hi Johann, see my comments below Chris’s remark. Good intentions seem to weaken our critical faculties. It is as if we are so satisfied with them that we think things will turn out right because of the good intentions.
Bertie commented on the post, The curse of recycling bins, on the site Read This! 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Hi Chris, I think a change would have turned it into another experiment, testing something different. I also considered your remark below and still think the experiment was set up correctly for what it wanted to […]
Bertie commented on the post, The curse of recycling bins, on the site Read This! 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Absolutely Johann. We tend to think too narrowly. As adam Smith noted, there is a gap between intentions and outcomes. We put too much emphasis on intentions. Rather think outcomes.
