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5 Jul 2023 · And, number four: people are moving away from older cities, where narrower streets decrease car speeds and make it safer to walk, to places with wider, faster streets. There’s at least one more reason why so many pedestrians keep getting hit and killed in the U.S.
12 Sep 2020 · Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings came to believe that corporate rules can kill creativity and innovation. In this latest edition of the Freakonomics Radio Book Club, guest host Maria Konnikova talks to Hastings about his new book, No Rules Rules, and why for some companies the greatest risk is taking no risks at all. Sep 12, 2020.
My thesis is simple: in our zeal to “tough things out,” to keep our nose to the grindstone, in our zeal to win, we underestimate the upside of quitting. Now full disclosure here: I am a serial quitter. I’ve quit a dream job, with the New York Times; I quit my childhood dream — being a rock star; I even quit a religion.
Read full Transcript Sources. Steve Tadelis, professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.; Steven Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics, economist at the University of Chicago, and host of People I (Mostly) Admire.; Anna Tuchman, associate professor of marketing at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management
30 Ogo 2023 · Hey there, it’s Stephen Dubner. Adam Davidson, one of the founders of NPR’s Planet Money podcast, is guest-hosting a few episodes for us. They’re about the past, present, and even the future of what’s being called artificial intelligence — a name, by the way, that practically no one working in A.I. seems to like.
