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Andrew

@sagewords

I read. I run. I sleep.

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Andrew
@sagewords Feb 17, 2018, 9:33 PM UTC

Why Governance Matters (Part One)

There’s a crisis in Bitcoin. Or you could say there’ve been a series of crises in Bitcoin over the last several years, many of them stemming from the same root cause. Either way, there’s a mountain t…

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Andrew
@sagewords Jan 27, 2018, 10:50 PM UTC

Sign Here To Scale Up Bitcoin, Please

What’s the most commonly cited problem with Bitcoin? Scalability! According to just about anyone you’d care to ask, scaling up to handle the kind of transaction volumes that companies like Visa handl…

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Andrew
@sagewords Oct 22, 2017, 7:02 PM UTC

What's the deal with Bitcoin Gold?

The new Bitcoin Gold fork set to occur on October 25th hopes it shakes things up. The result could be a new burst of wealth creation and a return to how Bitcoin was mined in its early days...or it co…

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Andrew
@sagewords Jun 10, 2017, 4:13 PM UTC

Get Off The Treadmill: How We Change Fast

Everybody knows hedonic adaptation. Better known as the hedonic treadmill, this is our natural inclination to quickly get accustomed to things around us. It’s typically used to explain how we humans…

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Andrew
@sagewords Jun 6, 2017, 5:16 PM UTC

Charismatic Authority

The eminent sociologist Max Weber devised a useful way to understand how authority figures get and keep power. He described three different categories: rational-legal authority, traditional authority…

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Andrew
@sagewords May 29, 2017, 7:26 PM UTC

A Few Words About Groupthink

Groupthink has been around for as long as humans have formed groups and made decisions together, yet this foundational psychological concept didn’t really get formalized until 1972. A psychologist na…

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Andrew
@sagewords May 23, 2017, 4:21 AM UTC

On Defense With Your Money

Taking a breather from thinking other topics, this is something I wrote recently about personal finance. I should note that it's directed toward Americans. Gaining financial independence won’t happen…

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Andrew
@sagewords May 15, 2017, 4:43 AM UTC

Simple Gratitude Exercise

I wrote down about twenty-five things I’m grateful for earlier today. This exercise is something I think everyone should do periodically. I suppose it may have had something to do with Mother’s Day a…

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@sagewords May 8, 2017, 4:42 AM UTC

Stepping Into the Same Culture Twice

You know what an expat is, but have you met a repat? This is what I’ve come to think is a good--and the most obvious--term for people who’ve gone abroad for some length of time and then found it diff…

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Andrew
@sagewords May 1, 2017, 4:55 AM UTC

Choosing What's Hard But Worthwhile

Loss aversion is one of the most popular cognitive biases we have. Most people have heard of it, or at least know how it feels to lose something. We humans have this itch in our minds to avoid loss w…

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