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Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things…

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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

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Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61] — Siri Hustvedt
When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest… — John Redwood
Making them feel gorgeous and comfortable is my way of making women's lives easier, — Alber Elbaz
God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful. — Bob Goff
Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes… — Reggie Watts
Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier. — Michael Kors
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems… — James Surowiecki
We were trying to make our lives easier, trying, with all our rules, to make life effortless. But a friction began to… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier. — Alexander Dubcek
The Value of a man is not measured by what he does for himself to make his life easier, But, measured by… — Unknown Author

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