Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
We ought to arrange calendars as we arrange art on our walls and ask: how does this task fit next to the… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
The amount of resources we put in are disparate. We put billions of dollars into fuel-efficient technologies. How much are we putting… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
One cost, for the lonely: If you want to be interesting, the one thing you shouldn't do is really focus on the fact that… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Eat better or work out more, and youll see the benefits weeks, months or years down the road. Sleep more, and youll see the… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Marketing is selling an ad to a firm. So, in some sense, a lot of marketing is about convincing a CEO, 'This is a… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Organizations talk about spending their lives firefighting - dealing with the next problem without having the bandwidth to deal with what is down the… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Things that price at $4.99 sell very differently than things that price at $5. — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
People go shopping, we spend on so many things, and we just don't know. We don't know the prices of things. But gasoline, even… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time. — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Faced with a time shortage, we squeeze tasks into the nooks and crannies of our calendar, leaving less and less time to switch between… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Busy people all make the same mistake: they assume they are short on time, which of course, they are. But time is not their… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
