Today is Saturday. I’ve given blood, eaten a salad, had my first iced Americano, and am slogging through Jonah Lehrer’s pop-neuroscience-for-high-schoolers-essay-turned-hardback How We Decide.
Here are a few terms dropped in the last few pages that I need to learn a lot more about: asymmetric paternalism (a new political philosophy), loss aversion ( a psychological force), and the framing effect (closely related to loss aversion). If you know anything about these things, let me know.