The Not-So-Great Power of Positive Thinking
The Not-So-Great Power of Positive Thinking
(Bloomberg View) -- The weekend is here! Pour yourself a mug of French press coffee, grab a seat on the Seine and get ready for our longer-form weekend reads:
- The Secret History of FEMA (Wired)
- Dr. Con Man: the rise and fall of a celebrity scientist who fooled almost everyone (the Guardian)
- Jamie Dimon’s $13 Billion Secret — Revealed (Vanity Fair)
- Workers: Fear Not the Robot Apocalypse (Wall Street Journal)
- After Five Decades, A Spy Tells Her Tale (Washington Post); see also A diminutive woman — and a spy who defined courage (Washington Post)
- Don’t think too positive: Fantasies about the future have a troubling effect on achieving actual goals. If positive thinking doesn’t work, what does? (Aeon)
- Speculation in a Truth Chamber (Philosophical Economics)
- How Kevin Smith Makes Big Business Out of Niche Audiences (Vulture)
- It’s the Golden Age of TV. And Writers Are Reaping the Rewards and Paying the Toll. (New York Times); see also Showtime at the Alamo (Texas Monthly)
- The history and mystery of the high five (ESPN)
Be sure to check out our Masters in Business interview with Katie Stockton, chief technical strategist for BTIG.
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Barry Ritholtz is a Bloomberg View columnist. He founded Ritholtz Wealth Management and was chief executive and director of equity research at FusionIQ, a quantitative research firm. He blogs at the Big Picture and is the author of “Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy.”
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