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My Dad Built a Garage, And I Got A Lesson Of A Lifetime

Terry Starbucker

In my hands, a hammer was a dangerous tool capable of putting holes where holes shouldn’t be, and bashing fingers into submission. I didn’t need a hammer! It was a two week project, and it was one of the longest two weeks of my life. I have absolutely no aptitude for carpentry. Because numbers I could work with.

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Why Rational People Can’t Succeed as Economic Forecasters

Harvard Business Review

Download this podcast. What effect does it have if we change the way we manage firms? If you get very confident that government knows what it’s doing and can manage the economy well, does that increase risk at all? Economy Entrepreneurship Managing uncertainty' There’s a lot of failure in your book.