The Kindle Chronicles TKC 547 Philosopher-Economist Tim Harford
Author of Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives
Interview starts at 15:43 and ends at 43:50
“You can be super clever and have all your tricks, but fundamentally everything in your life is crowding out something else in your life. At some point you have to choose, and the choice should be thoughtful.”
News
“The Prime Challenges for Amazon’s New Delivery Robot” by Matt Simon and Arielle Pardes Gear at Wired - January 23, 2019
“Meet Scout: Field testing a new delivery system with Amazon Scout” by Sean Scott at Amazon’s Day One blog - January 23, 2019
Tech Tip
Starbucks Reorder skill for Alexa
Interview with Tim Harford
Messy: The Power of Disorder to Transform Our Lives by Tim Harford
“How frustration can make us more creative” - TED talk by Tim Harford in September, 2015
“Tim Harford: how behavioral economics helped kick my phone addiction” at The Financial Times - January 17, 2019 (Behind paywall, try Googling the title)
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport - Available for pre-order, to be delivered February 5, 2019
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry
The Art of Statistics: Learning from Data by David Spiegelhalter - Available for pre-order at Amazon.co.uk to be delivered March 28, 2019
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton
Meltdown: Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It by Chris Clearfield
Marie Kondo’s website
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy BBC podcast by Tim Harford
Fifty Inventions That Shaped the Modern Economy by Tim Harford
Fright Tonight Alexa skill
Content
Early Riser by Jasper Fforde - available for preorder (hardcover only) with delivery February 12, 2019
The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics by John Hickenlooper
Next Week’s Guest
Seth Godin, author of This Is Marketing: You Can’t be Seen Until You Learn to See
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