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37. Sendhil Mullainathan Thinks Messing Around Is the Best Use of Your Time

People I (Mostly) Admire

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Change Is Good Just for Change's Sake

You were in Cambridge back and forth between Harvard and MIT for over two decades. Why did you decide to move to the University of Chicago after all these years? It's related to your flipping a coin study actually one of the things that was most influential was when i was trying to decide what to do somebody said to me sometimes change is good just for change's sake That really stuck with me because on my pro-con list nowhere was there written change it's like they're material aspects.

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