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Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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Gurwinder • Why Everything Is Becoming a Game
We now live in a world dominated by technologies based on B. F. Skinner’s vision of how the human mind works. His insight—that you can train living creatures to desperately crave arbitrary rewards—has
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
We now live in a world dominated by technologies based on B. F. Skinner’s vision of how the human mind works. His insight—that you can train living creatures to desperately crave arbitrary rewards—has come to dominate our environment.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Walden Two (Hackett Classics)
Alfie Kohn • Why Incentive Plans Cannot Work
Dale Carnegie • How To Win Friends and Influence People
We are a society of loyal Skinnerians, unable to think our way out of the box we have reinforced ourselves into.
Alfie Kohn • Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
Skinner noted that parental attention is a powerful reinforcer, and that parents can, by being slow to respond to polite requests, unwittingly train their children to be annoying and pushy.