A few people have been asking me if there is a good way to self diagnose the swine flu.

Luckily there is a highly accurate test (with accuracy above 99.9%).

Step 1: ask yourself: do I have the swine flu?

Step 2: scroll to the bottom of this screen

Congratulations!  You don’t have the swine flu

A few weeks ago at TED I met John Hodgman, and he agreed to watch my version of his mac vs pc videos (he is the guy playing the PC on the apple ads).  He approved.

This is the last one in the set

2 years ago on April 29th 2007 I turned 40 and at the same day submitted the final draft of Predictably Irrational to my editor.

It has been an incredible journey, very unexpected, and much more exciting than I imagined.

A few weeks ago I finished writing the expanded version of Predictably Irrational, and today I should get the first copy from the printer.

Irrationally yours

Dan

Finally, we finished all the videos for Predictably Irrational!

It was lots of fun to do them and Matthew Duckworth and Laura Brinn did a wonderful job!  Many many thanks
To get the videos on iTunes use this link
Or you can see them on the demos page of this site

Chapter 10: the power of price

These days when there are lots of financial related scandals and cheating this topic might be particularly relevant.

I am not sure it is the best talk I ever gave, but if you have 17 min to spare…

Take me to TED

In case you live in NY and have nothing to do on 3/16 at 6-8 PM

I am going to give a short talk on the stock market from the perspective of behavioral economics — on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange

This is hosted by George Washington University, but everyone is invited and there is going to be some free food — so if you have nothing better to do ….

http://www.alumniconnections.com/olc/pub/GEW/events_luther/event_order.cgi?tmpl=events&event=2220180.0

Irrationally yours

Dan

A 70-year-old, extremely wealthy widower, shows up at the Country Club with a beautiful and very sexy 25 year-old blond who knocks everyone’s socks off and who hangs over Bob’s arm and listens intently to his every word.

His buddies at the club are all aghast. At the very first chance, they corner him and ask, “Bob, how’d you get the trophy girlfriend?” Bob replies, “Girlfriend? She’s my wife!” They’re knocked over, but continue to ask, “So, how’d you persuade her to marry you?”

“I lied about my age,” Bob replies, “I told her I was 90!!”

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