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Don’t Worry, Be Happy
“Sometime’s there’s a man, I won’t say a hero, ’cause what’s a hero? I’m talking about The Dude here, well, he’s the man for his time and place.” (The Stranger, The Big Lebowski) There are two kinds of people in … Continue reading
Posted in big lebowski, Uncategorized
Tagged 59th street bridge song, bernie glassman, bhagavad gita, coen brothers, ethan cohen, haraclitus, jeff bridges, john lennon, john turturro, kathleen falsani, lao tzu, mihali, philip seymour hoffman, richard dawkins, simon & garfunkel, tao te ching, the big lebowski, the dude, the god delusion, transcendental meditation, wittgenstein
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Happy
Pharell Williams’ song Happy made it to the #1 spot in 24 countries simultaneously, topping the charts in the US and UK for three consecutive weeks. It’s a nice enough song, a catchy, exuberant, singalong kind of affair, but we’re talking rarefied territory … Continue reading
Posted in economics, psychology, Uncategorized
Tagged blanchflower, bono, dartmouth, david gilmour, davidgilmour, dismal science, dismalscience, Dudeism, easterlin paradox, easterlinparadox, happiness economics, happinesseconomics, Jim Morrison, jimmorrison, kahneman, krugman, lennon, man's search for meaning, man'ssearchformeaning, mark knopfler, markknopfler, michael jackson, michaeljackson, mick jagger, mickjagger, pharell williams, piketty, pink floyd, pinkfloyd, richard easterlin, richardeasterlin, roger waters, stiglitz, the beatles, the wharton school, thebeatles, thewhartonschool, thomas carlyle, thomascarlyle, thomaspikkety, tina turner, tinaturner, viktor frankl, viktorfrankl
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