Volume 4 · 310 essays

The Ledger and the Loom

Essays on money, making, and exchange. Every essay below is one page; they are arranged alphabetically, as in the book.

• 10% Week
• 21 Percent Rule
• 310/10/10 Rule
• 418-40-60 Rule
• 52+2 Rule
• 625% Tipping Point
• 750% Failure
• 860 Seconds Rule
• 9Action Tendency
• 10AI Pentathlon
• 11Allen Curve
• 12Amplification of Error
• 13Annuity Paradox
• 14Antagonistic Pleiotropy
• 15Anticipatory Design
• 16Auftragstaktik
• 17Back Pocket Three
• 18Banana Principle
• 19Bandwidth Tax
• 20Bank of Good Thoughts
• 21Banker’s Paradox
• 22Baumol’s Cost Disease
• 23Benefit Finding
• 24Beta Mentality
• 25Better than the Beatles Problem
• 26Big Why
• 27Billable Hour Trap
• 28Biome Depletion Theory
• 29BIRG-ing
• 30Black-Washing
• 31Bob Rubin Trade
• 32Boom-And-Bust Pattern
• 33Boots Theory
• 34Bottom-Dollar Effect
• 35Boulding's Backward Basis
• 36Broken-Window Theory
• 37Bubble-Centrism
• 38Buy-To-Solve Tendency
• 39Buyback Principle
• 40Buyback Rate
• 41Caffeinated Consumer
• 42Candle Problem
• 43Capitalist Schema
• 44Certainty Premium
• 45Choose Again Method
• 46Chris Discount
• 47Circle of Acceleration
• 48Close Your Eyes Hack
• 49Club Goods
• 50Cockaigne
• 51Cognitive Poverty
• 52Comcast Problem
• 53Commensurate Spending
• 54Concept Engineering
• 55Concept Triangulation
• 56Concretization
• 57Cone of Uncertainty
• 58Contagious Yawning
• 59Content Inc. Revenue Model
• 60Content Shock
• 61ConZentration Crossroads
• 62Credit Assignment Problem
• 63Credit Rule
• 64Critical Ignoring
• 65Cryptominds
• 66Current Thingism
• 67Cyborg Collective
• 68Cycle of Power
• 69Dab Tsog
• 70Dark Matter People
• 71Defusion Technique
• 72Detached Credulity
• 73Difference Principle
• 74Dropping Anchor Technique
• 75Dyssemia
• 76Econogenic Zemiology
• 77Edge Instantiation
• 78Elasticity of Supply
• 79Elon Markets Hypothesis
• 80Enhancement Evolution
• 81Entropic Anarchy
• 82Epistemic Purgatory
• 83Exo-Subjects
• 84Expectation States Theory
• 85Expectations Infrastructure
• 86Explore/Exploit Tradeoff
• 87Face Pareidolia
• 88Failure to Choose
• 89Fault-Feedback-Ratio
• 90Femes
• 91Fifth Risk
• 92Financial Doping
• 93Financial Instability Hypothesis
• 94Fishing-Out Problem
• 95FOSS
• 96Four Cs
• 97Free Money Cost
• 98Frictional Design
• 99Fund of Experience
• 100Gambling For Resurrection
• 101Gawker Boomerang
• 102Get Ahead at Any Cost Mentality
• 103Gettothepointplease Quotient
• 104Giffen Good
• 105Gilded Rule
• 106Going to Ground Zero
• 107Golden Rejoining
• 108Good-Enough Parent
• 109Gordian Problem Solving Approach
• 110Grapefruit Problem
• 111Greater Fool Theory
• 112Green-Botching
• 113Greyballing
• 114Guided Autobiography
• 115Heroic Individualism
• 116Hidden Affordances
• 117Historian Error
• 118Hollywood Handshake
• 119Homo Significativa
• 120How Are You Loop
• 121Hug Your Firsts
• 122Human Composting
• 123Humm’s Approach
• 124Hurly-Burly
• 125Hyperlexia
• 126Hyperobject
• 127Idiot Index
• 128Illuminator
• 129Income Gap
• 130Incrementalism
• 131Induced Demand
• 132Inexperienced Experience Approach
• 133Infinite Players
• 134Inflation Bias
• 135Inner Citadel
• 136Inner/Outer Triangle
• 137Innervation
• 138Intra-Elite Competition
• 139Inverse Gilded Rule
• 140Investment Simulator
• 141IPOP Principle
• 142Iron Law of Economic Survival
• 143Jar Method
• 144Johari Window
• 145Key Investor Indicators
• 146Law of Accelerating Returns
• 147Lesser Minds Problem
• 148Liar’s Dividend
• 149Liquid Modernity
• 150Lizard People
• 151Loneliness Economy
• 152Long-Term Selfish
• 153Longevity Risk
• 154Longtermism
• 155Lottery Factor
• 156Lottery Fallacy
• 157Lottery Ticket Effect
• 158Lowly Listening
• 159Luxury Consumption Effects
• 160M-Score
• 161Machine Money
• 162Majoring in the Minors
• 163Maltese Falcon
• 164Marketing Placebo Effect
• 165McDonaldization
• 166Minari
• 167Moltke’s Categorization
• 168Monetization of Impatience
• 169Money Illusion
• 170Monopsony
• 171Multi-Armed Bandit Problem
• 172Narrow Bracketing
• 173Neural Expectancy
• 174Neuromarketing
• 175NiNi Generation
• 176No Asshole Rule
• 177Noninteroperability Tax
• 178Normal Chaos
• 179Onesidedness Property
• 180Opportunity Open Market
• 181Orchid and Dandelion Theory
• 182Organizational Debt
• 183Orthodoxy Pitfall
• 184Overconfident Troubleshooting
• 185Parent Paradox
• 186Parkerization of Wine
• 187Pathways Principle
• 188Pattern Shortcut
• 189Percolation Lattice
• 190Perfect Week
• 191Pertinent Negative
• 192Pessimistic Certainty
• 193Philosophical Bankruptcy
• 194Physician-Induced Demand
• 195Pinhole Problem
• 196Pink Tax
• 197Piranha Analysis
• 198Pleonexia
• 199Point Eight
• 200Policy Infra
• 201Positive Deviance
• 202Positive-Negative Asymmetry
• 203Post-Structuralism
• 204Postural Feedback
• 205Pre-commit
• 206Pre-suasion
• 207Preening
• 208Presentism
• 209Preventive Maintenance
• 210Price Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
• 211Principle of Associativity
• 212Printed Orality
• 213Proactionary Principle
• 214Procrastivity
• 215Profilicity
• 216Progress Loop
• 217Purple Lens
• 218Pyrrhic Victory
• 219Rage Circuit
• 220Rapid Power Reclaim Method
• 221Recursion Principle
• 222Red and Yellow Trucks
• 223Red Carpet Technique
• 224Regret Lottery
• 225Reitoff Principle
• 226Reverse Insurance
• 227Reverse Outlining
• 228Rich Ratio
• 229Risk-Taking Equation
• 230Safetyism
• 231Salutogenesis
• 232Scenius
• 233SCQA Format
• 234Scrabble Greatness
• 235Serial Order Effect
• 236Shadow Work
• 237Shifting Baseline Syndrome
• 238Shiny Idea Syndrome
• 239Shoe Salesmen Parable
• 240Shotgunning Technique
• 241Shrinkflation
• 242Sick Role
• 243Silver Medal Technique
• 244Silver Rule
• 245Similarity-Attraction Effect
• 246Simplification Trap
• 247Skimpflation
• 248Small-Area Principle
• 249SOBER Technique
• 250Societal Wealth
• 251Socrates Effect
• 252Splinter List
• 253Sports Fan Trap
• 254Spray and Pray Sales Technique
• 255Stable-World Principle
• 256Stationarity
• 257Stimulus Generalization
• 258Stochastic Mindset
• 259Stockbroker Scam
• 260Street World
• 261Stress Bucket
• 262Stress Less Badge
• 263Stroop Effect
• 264Stroop Interference
• 265Structuration Theory
• 266STUDEE Method
• 267Substitution Principle
• 268Suitcase Principle
• 269Sumo Wrestler
• 270Superstock
• 271Survivor Bias
• 272Switch Cost Effect
• 273Systemic Sublime
• 274Take-the-Silver-or-Take-the-Lead Dilemma
• 275Takeconomy
• 276Tescreal
• 277The Da Vinci Effect
• 278The Give Your Mind a Name Technique
• 279The Price Scissors Theory
• 280The Triple-A Approach
• 281Things Indifferent
• 282Thinking Cost
• 283Three-Box Solution
• 284Title Inflation
• 285TM/NE Problem
• 286Toothbrushing Problems
• 287Trading Framework
• 288Unbelieving
• 289Unreliable Narrator
• 290Upper Limit Problem
• 291Verbal Overshadowing
• 292Vertical Couple
• 293Vigilance Decrement
• 294Visibility Gap
• 295Vlad the Mad Theory
• 296Volkswagen Verity
• 297Volvo Effect
• 298Warm Glow
• 299Weighted Total Futility
• 300White Christmas Effect
• 301Why Reflex
• 302Why Whammy
• 303Windows of Opportunity
• 304Winner’s Effect
• 305WIP Limit
• 306Worm's Eye View
• 307Yak Shaving
• 308Yellow Pad
• 309Zero-Risk Bias
• 310Zombie Project