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  Over the last couple of months my posts have mostly focused on big decisions we make in life.  Topics have included retirement planning (mostly financial), choices we make with our money and different technics on how we make decisions.  Weekly posts have ranged from academic to moral.  All that deep thinking is a bit too much for my brain.  I have spent the last week or so focused on the day to day decisions and how we go about our everyday lives.  A handful of encounters lead me to these thoughts. The first is retirement and how it differs from working.  When employed a lot of your time is consumed by said job.  Sure you are free to make choices about where you work and by extension how and how often but your daily efforts are dictated by the demands of your job.  You would usually wake up based on your work hours,  dinner would be based on the time you arrive home from work.  Boy sounds very depressing when you write it down LOL...

  After finishing last week's post I decided to chill out and make some decisions about what to read next.  As I wrote in my  Previous post  I was quite enthralled by Richard Thaler's book and looked forward to reading a previous book of his called "Nudge the Final Edition".  I was looking to purchase the book from amazon and download it to my e-reader when I got the bright idea of heading to the closest book store and getting a real physical version of the book..  I needed a trip out and since the weather had cooled off a little I decided to hit the road.  Having a physical book is nice.  You can put it on a shelf and when people visit they will see your book shelf and realize how incredibly smart you are.  So Thaler's book will sit on the shelf next to my Peanuts Treasury and outdated Cisco IOS manual.  I do need to go through my office and update things a bit.  The Peanuts Treasury and Calvin and Hobbes "Homicidal Psycho Jungle C...

  Hit the fly win a prize I finally finished Richard Thaler's book "Misbehaving: The making of Behavioral Economics".  It took a while to get through the book.  There are two main reasons that a book would become a "long" read for me.  The first is that the book is generally dull and uninteresting.  It becomes painful to pick up the book and read it.  However since I started it I feel compelled to finish it.  Usually hoping it will get better.  Rarely it does.  The second reason is that the book and the ideas are so compelling that I find myself constantly rereading sections.  This was definitely the case with Thaler's book.  I found myself constantly going back and rereading sections.  I would also spend time searching some of the concepts and ideas presented to deepen my understanding of them.  I shall reread the entire book in the very near future. The book is basically a chronological recap of him creating a new field ...