Pay me $5 per hour to sit behind you in the library and make sure you don’t procrastinate. I screen your calls, ward off anyone that comes near to make conversation, make sure you’re not browsing Facebook, blogging or reading about the history of Disneyland on Wikipedia. Better yet, why not set up a website [...]
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Three great ideas for dealing with rubbernecking
When a car driving on the freeway slows down to check out an accident on the side of the road, it’s more likely to start a traffic jam, which, once started, is really hard to unwind. Traffic jams impose terrible time costs on all of us, so the rubbernecker’s individual decision carries a significant externality. [...]
Cure alcoholism: donate a kidney
Many forms of self-control involve tying the hands of our future selves; putting the alarm clock across the room so our 7 AM self will have to wake up and retrieve it; resolving to make expensive payments or donations unless behavior changes; disabling our Internet for eight hours at a time. I read recently that [...]
Six budget proposals for the California government
The California government faces a $24 billion dollar shortfall. Here are some sensible proposals for helping cut the budget deficit, that will never happen. #1. Charge market prices for utilities like water and electricity. Every other year, the State goes through a water shortage, or blackouts, because the state keeps the price of electricity and [...]
