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  This week on Unsupervised Learning Razib talks to Megan McArdle, author of The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success and Washington Post columnist and op-ed board member. McArdle was raised in New York City and attended Riverdale Country School. She obtained an undergraduate degree in English from University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Chicago. A pioneering blogger based out of New York City and covering the site of the WTC in the wake of 9/11, McArdle went on to work at The Economist, The Atlantic and Newsweek. In this episode, the discussion largely focuses on McArdle's research about the cultural history of food and cooking in the US. But first they discuss the economic implications of Donald Trump's election, and the domestic consequences shifting toward a tariff-heavy trade regime. McArdle lays out the case that a massive tariff would have the same impact as a tax, not to mention the broad disruptive economic effects on large companies' supply chains. Then they move on to the changes in American cuisine over the last few centuries, and the shifts driven by technology and innovation. McArdle points out that in the 19th century, gelatin dessert was a luxury and an exotic treat because it was labor intensive to prepare. But by the middle of the 20th century industrial-scale food processing made gelatin, in particular Jell-o, a cheap commodity, and it became associated with the lower classes. Similarly, before factory farming, chicken and eggs were more expensive than red meat, and thus viewed as high-end ingredient (whereas today, chicken is far cheaper than beef). Finally Razib and McArdle talk about how the plentitude of food available in the 21st century contributes to the obesity epidemic that has only ceased its relentless expansion with the advent of Ozempic.

Megan McArdle - Washington Post columnist and the author of "The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success." Twitter said Monday it has agreed to sell itself to Elon Musk, who will take the company private in a deal valued at around $44 billion. What's the bigger picture behind Twitter accepting Elon Musk's deal to buy them out? Can he really turn Twitter into “whatever [he] wants?” She joins Tavis to unpack her thoughts on the subject (Hour 2)

In this panel discussion, three leading experts—Sarah Isgur (The Dispatch), Megan McArdle (Washington Post), and Matthew Weil (Bipartisan Policy Center)—will examine the causes of distrust in American elections and investigate its broader impact on the resilience of U.S. democracy.About the speakers:Sarah Isgur is a staff writer and host of the legal podcast Advisory Opinions for The Dispatch, a professor at George Washington's School of Media and Public Affairs and George Mason Law School, a contributing editor at Politico, and an ABC News contributor. She most recently served in the Department of Justice as the Director of the Office of Public Affairs and Senior Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General during the Russia investigation. She was backstage for more than a half dozen presidential debates as the Deputy Campaign Manager for Carly Fiorina's presidential campaign. Isgur clerked for the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Northwestern University.Megan McArdle is a Washington Post columnist and the author of "The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success." Previously, she was a Bloomberg View columnist. McArdle wrote for the Daily Beast, Newsweek, the Atlantic and the Economist and founded the blog Asymmetrical Information.Matthew Weil is director of the Bipartisan Policy Center's Elections Project where he is responsible for all of the organization's voting-related policy development efforts at the state and federal level, the Business Alliance for Effective Democracy, and collaborations with social media platforms to provide authoritative election information to voters. Prior to joining BPC in February 2013, he worked at the Department of the Treasury on domestic finance issues in the office of public affairs. He also previously served as a research and policy analyst at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission and as a research assistant at the American Enterprise Institute. Weil holds a Master of Science in Government Analytics degree from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania.Chair: Dr Thomas Gift 

It's summertime. Do you know what that means? That's right. It's time for your summer reading list. I bet you thought you were too old for such things.  In this episode,  we share 7 essential books for any Customer Experience professional to read, ideally in a tropical locale with a fruity drink in hand.  Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience From books on Customer Experience to books about psychology to 1990s bestselling business books, we have a wide variety of reading material for Customer Experience professionals. These books will help you understand why customer behavior is the way it is and how you can help move that behavior to a place that delivers customer-driven growth. Best of all, we save the best for last. Here are the 7 books we think you should read this summer: The Experience Economy: Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money by B. Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore The End of Average How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness by Todd Rose Who Moved My Cheese? By Dr. Spencer Johnson Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial and Error for Business, Politics, and Society by Jim Manzi The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle The Intuitive Customer: 7 Imperatives for Moving Your Customer Experience to the Next Level by Colin Shaw and Ryan Hamilton See what we did there? Here are a few key moments in the discussion: 02:56   Colin introduces his first book, The Experience Economy cowritten by Joe Pine, a recent guest on the podcast from a few weeks back.  05:05   Ryan introduces his first book, The End of Average, and explained the basic idea of the book and the implications for Customer Experience. 06:53    Colin recommends Who Moved My Cheese?, a 90s bestseller that changed his life by urging him to start his own global Customer Experience Consultancy. 12:54    Ryan shares a book called Uncontrolled, a book that emphasizes the importance of experimentation. 17:15   Colin gives a brief summary of the seven habits shared in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.       22:19.   Ryan suggests The Up Side of Down, which shares the idea that failure is critical to growth and lessons learned from failure can lead to future successes. 24:40.  We save the best for last with The Intuitive Customer, our book that explores the 7 imperatives for taking your experience to a new level of greatness. Please tell us how we are doing! Complete this short survey.  Customer Experience Information & Resources LinkedIn recognizes Colin Shaw as one of the 'World's Top 150 Business Influencers.' As a result, he has 289,000 followers of his work. Shaw is Founder and CEO of Beyond Philosophy LLC, which helps organizations unlock growth by discovering customers' hidden, unmet needs that drive value ($). The Financial Times selected Beyond Philosophy LLC as one of the best management consultancies for the last two years. Follow Colin on Linkedin and Twitter. Click here to learn more about Professor Ryan Hamilton of Emory University.  Why Customers Buy: As an official "Influencer" on LinkedIn, Colin writes a regular newsletter on all things Customer Experience. Click here to join the other 22,000 subscribers.  Experience Health Check: You already have an experience, even if you weren't deliberate about it. Our Experience Health Check can help you understand what you have today. Colin or one of our team can assess your digital or physical Customer Experience, interacting with your organization as a customer to define what is good and what needs improving. Then, they will provide a list of recommendations for critical next steps for your organization. Click here to learn more.  How can we help? Click here to learn more about Beyond Philosophy's Suite of Services.

It's summertime. Do you know what that means? That's right. It's time for your summer reading list. I bet you thought you were too old for such things.  In this episode,  we share 7 essential books for any Customer Experience professional to read, ideally in a tropical locale with a fruity drink in hand.  Key Ideas to Improve your Customer Experience From books on Customer Experience to books about psychology to 1990s bestselling business books, we have a wide variety of reading material for Customer Experience professionals. These books will help you understand why customer behavior is the way it is and how you can help move that behavior to a place that delivers customer-driven growth. Best of all, we save the best for last. Here are the 7 books we think you should read this summer: The Experience Economy: Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money by B. Joseph Pine and James H. Gilmore The End of Average How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness by Todd Rose Who Moved My Cheese? By Dr. Spencer Johnson Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial and Error for Business, Politics, and Society by Jim Manzi The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle The Intuitive Customer: 7 Imperatives for Moving Your Customer Experience to the Next Level by Colin Shaw and Ryan Hamilton See what we did there? Here are a few key moments in the discussion: 02:56   Colin introduces his first book, The Experience Economy cowritten by Joe Pine, a recent guest on the podcast from a few weeks back.  05:05   Ryan introduces his first book, The End of Average, and explained the basic idea of the book and the implications for Customer Experience. 06:53    Colin recommends Who Moved My Cheese?, a 90s bestseller that changed his life by urging him to start his own global Customer Experience Consultancy. 12:54    Ryan shares a book called Uncontrolled, a book that emphasizes the importance of experimentation. 17:15   Colin gives a brief summary of the seven habits shared in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.       22:19.   Ryan suggests The Up Side of Down, which shares the idea that failure is critical to growth and lessons learned from failure can lead to future successes. 24:40.  We save the best for last with The Intuitive Customer, our book that explores the 7 imperatives for taking your experience to a new level of greatness. Please tell us how we are doing! Complete this short survey.  Customer Experience Information & Resources LinkedIn recognizes Colin Shaw as one of the 'World's Top 150 Business Influencers.' As a result, he has 289,000 followers of his work. Shaw is Founder and CEO of Beyond Philosophy LLC, which helps organizations unlock growth by discovering customers' hidden, unmet needs that drive value ($). The Financial Times selected Beyond Philosophy LLC as one of the best management consultancies for the last two years. Follow Colin on Linkedin and Twitter. Click here to learn more about Professor Ryan Hamilton of Emory University.  Why Customers Buy: As an official "Influencer" on LinkedIn, Colin writes a regular newsletter on all things Customer Experience. Click here to join the other 22,000 subscribers.  Experience Health Check: You already have an experience, even if you weren't deliberate about it. Our Experience Health Check can help you understand what you have today. Colin or one of our team can assess your digital or physical Customer Experience, interacting with your organization as a customer to define what is good and what needs improving. Then, they will provide a list of recommendations for critical next steps for your organization. Click here to learn more.  How can we help? Click here to learn more about Beyond Philosophy's Suite of Services.

We’ve all canceled something. Whether it’s a subscription, a vacation, or a date, cancelling or erasing a person? It seems so brutal. So unforgiving and final.It’s no surprise that cancel culture began on social media. Supporters say they are targeting people, companies and institutions for endorsing systems of racism, inequality, and bigotry. Opponents of cancel culture argue that this form of shaming causes personal injury, stifles debate and is a chilling threat to free speech.In this episode, we speak with opinion columnist Megan McArdle of The Washington Post, who wrote the recent article, "The Real Problem With Cancel Culture." She is also the author of "The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success.” We also discuss the Harper's Letter on open debate, signed by more than 150 academics, journalists and intellectuals, and the resignation of opinion journalist Bari Weiss from The New York Times."One of the arguments you get into is that cancel culture isn't real because there've always been things you couldn't say," Megan tells us. "But now the things you couldn't say are in a much wider range of topics, and a much broader range of things about those topics that you can't say."Recommendation: Richard recommends the news website allsides.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What are you Reading? In recent months the Covid-19 has restricted many of our usual activities, and many of us have used some extra time by turning to “beach reads.” Considering the circumstances, I would say beach reads are the books that you can enjoy, even if you have no beach to rest your toes in.  You can always have something engaging to read. (P.S. I am not really a big beach reader) This week I talk about an assortment of books I have enjoyed over the years.  Please leave a comment about some books you have enjoyed this year. We can have a fun conversation about books. ~ KevinQuote: “Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed (successfully or unsuccessfully) before. It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.” ~ James Mattis A friend of mine pointed out that Call Sign Chaos by Mattis (and Bing West) includes the former Secretary of Defense’s recommended reading list.  This newsletter is the beginning of an ongoing collection of readings that I would suggest. In some future titles, I will do a more thorough dive on some additional readings, but this week we explore themes of failure and being quiet. The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success by Megan McArdle is a wonderful book that, as the title explains, shows that making a mistake is not always bad. The real mistake is failing to learn from the experience. McArdle's editorials often look at current economic events in a way that dissects the issues insightfully. In the same way, this book looks at everything from bankruptcy, business cycles, failed movies, criminal probation, and hospital diagnosis, to poor reporting. She makes a point that the US bankruptcy system compliments the social stigma of bankruptcy by a code that is less punitive than it is in some other countries. This, she believes, encourages risk-taking and entrepreneurship. She also cleverly points to past relationships and compares them to the GM bailout. Her underlying argument is that, in both cases, individuals were too guided by past achievements to understand changes around them. As McArdle points out, “A resilient society lets you fail, and even lets the failure sting, but only for a moment. Then it helps you get back on track, and everyone reaps the benefit.” Her insights are both honest and well-reasoned. Much like writers such as Gladwell and Taleb, she is willing to question conventional thinking in an insightful and approachable manner that is tangible. Admirably, she does not distance her own life from examples of personal and professional mistakes, and what she learned encourages all to look within themselves to help explain our world. These qualities make for an excellent read, and I look forward to diving into her next work. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain is a very well written and insightful book on the qualities of those who are quiet.  I certainly can relate to many of the traits described by Cain.  We live in an extroverted world that rarely relents from its cacophonous sounds.  She does not dispute that human beings engage in social activity, but that quiet expression can have a deeper meaning.  This can take the form of talking in a small group or taking time for quiet reflection. She does not, “think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.” Cain argues that society can often overvalue the contributions of extroverts while the work of introverts is less noticed.  The increased volume and charisma of extroverts can lead the public and managers to be drawn to these figures.  However, she states that individuals who are seen as charismatic are not necessarily more effective at professional tasks.  She claims that this social preference is a mistake because introverts can be more perceptive of certain social conditions.  They can also be creative and develop new ideas during moments of solitude.  I enjoyed many aspects of this book, including the illustrations and insights. I also have to credit Cain for my interest in further exploring this topic with readings on solitude and creativity.  My dissertation writing practices were an attempt at understanding this relationship.“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” ~ Toni MorrisonNews: How math helps with COVID-19 testing: Nature TikTok and the response to possible restrictions in the US: Axios India back in lockdown:  Axios ….. I hope Caro finds out….. I wanted to pause and recognize the value of time spent reading.  Please feel free to share what books you have enjoyed lately in the comments.  As always, thank you for reading this newsletter.  It is fun to write, and I always appreciate the feedback please forward to friends. ~ Kevin Get on the email list at modlinglobal.substack.com

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First we talk to Ezekiel Kweku of MTV about his diagnosis of the Democratic Party's failure this year, how they can beat white nationalism next time around, and the Æon Flux animated series. Then the full Chapo team assembles to tackle the book "The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success" by Bloomberg View blogger and chronically wrong person Megan McArdle. It's a horrible dumb book and everyone gets mad at Will for making them read it. Ezekiel's piece: www.mtv.com/news/2955564/skin-in-the-game/#ifrndnloc Real Ames Hours on McArdle's portfolio: http://shameproject.com/profile/megan-mcardle/

Exploring How Failure Can Lead to Success The latest ABI Podcast features ABI Executive Director Sam Gerdano speaking with Bloomberg View writer Megan McArdle, author of The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success. Based on her research of both personal and business failure, McArdle provides examples of how businesses and consumers have built a fresh start after financial disaster. The new book from Viking Press is set for release on February 11.

Why is the Mona Lisa so famous and what does it have to with how we do our jobs?  In this episode, Bett and Russ review and add color to the book Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer by Duncan J Watts.  The book highlights the many ways we over rely on common sense, how it fails us, and then provides strategies for overcoming those failings.Listen to hear strategies for overcoming the failings of common sense.Listen now: (download)References:A few of the other books we mention:The Click Moment: Seizing Opportunity in an Unpredictable WorldStumbling on HappinessThe Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to SuccessThinking, Fast and SlowThe Black Swan

My guest today is Megan McArdle, a Bloomberg View columnist who writes on economics, business and public policy. She founded the blog “Asymmetrical Information”. The topic is her book The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success. In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss: “Trophy kids” and taking the monkey bars away The idea of a regulator out there trying to guarantee our safety Why the companies that make it aren't the ones with the best strategic plan–it's the ones that execute (and fail well) The power of experimentation Nobel winner Vernon Smith and experimentation The idea of learning in crisis How sunk costs are difficult for a large part of the population to grasp Van Halen, errors, and M&M's Normative error Small, manageable risks Forager morality vs. farmer morality A story about Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Jump in! --- I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show. To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/ You can watch a free video here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/video/ Can't get enough of this episode? You can choose from my thousand plus episodes here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/podcast My social media platforms: Twitter: @covel Facebook: @trendfollowing LinkedIn: @covel Instagram: @mikecovel Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!

Michael Covel speaks with Megan McArdle on today’s podcast. McArdle is a Bloomberg View columnist who writes on economics, business and public policy. She is the author of "The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success”. She founded the blog "Asymmetrical Information”. Covel and McArdle discuss “trophy kids” and taking the monkey bars away; the idea of a regulator out there trying to guarantee our safety; why the companies that make it aren’t the ones with the best strategic plan--it’s the ones that execute (and fail well); the power of experimentation; Nobel winner Vernon Smith and experimentation; the idea of learning in crisis; how sunk costs are difficult for a large part of the population to grasp; Van Halen, errors, and M&M’s; normative error; small, manageable risks; forager morality vs. farmer morality; and a story about Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Megan McArdle can be found on Twitter at @asymmetricinfo. Want a free trend following DVD: trendfollowing.com/win.

How many of us have taken great leaps out of fear?  How often has a failure, or being fired, or jilted resulted in being forced to take actions that turned out to be positively life changing? Often in our personal journey, when we get lost in the wilderness, that is what finally brings us home.As Bill Gates, unquestionably one of our most successful entrepreneurs has said, “it’s fine to celebrate success, but more important are the lessons of failure.” In the startup world, entrepreneurs are taught to fail quickly, learn and move on.  We all get advice, but it’s life experience and usually failure that teaches us the bigger lessons.Journalist Megan McArdle explains in The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success.My conversation with Megan McArdle: