Mid Q4-2025 Article Summaries (Hindsight Errors)

I'm here to buy a hammer
I'm a simple man (I tell myself). When I go shopping, I don't want to push aside a Trump flag to get to my product. Or listen to a communist manifesto over the loudspeaker. I'm there to buy a product or a service and the other things get in the way--even if I might agree with them.

Business should do products and services. And hats off to those who do it well--they will get my dollars.
 

Privacy ideas
Concerned about the trail you are leaving online (for unscrupulous folks to exploit, or just extra marketing that will come your way)? 

This video talks through some steps you can take to reduce your vulnerability. 

The cost of things that are free
Isn't it interesting the emotional attachment we assign to the word free.

Turns out, there is a cost for free--paid by the poor, particularly.

Hindsight Errors
The psychologist Baruch Fischhof:
"In hindsight, people consistently exaggerate what could have been anticipated in foresight. … People believe that others should have been able to anticipate events much better than they actually did.
They even misremember their own predictions so as to exaggerate in hindsight what they knew in foresight"