The Technic Alley

I just read a post in Dan Ariely’s blog about the new expanded version of Predictably Irrational.
Ariely writes:
 
Predictably Irrational was first published in February 2008, and given the relative ease of modifying books these days, I decided to add some of my reflections on the stock market crisis — and create an expanded edition of [...]

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I read some interesting discussions on Twitter that companies should encourage employees to telecommute (work from home) when they have flu like symptoms if they cannot afford to take the day off due to economic constraints. Cutting down business travel using technologies such as telepresence when possible would surely help.

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When I wrote these articles on how one could use portals like Yahoo Groups to set up a crime watch site for people in a  neighborhood to share, there was no Twitter.  But I have seen several crime watch tweets. I am wondering if it makes any sense to use Twitter for this pupose. Being [...]

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