I agree the title is misleading. I sleep 6-7 hours most nights, but I never go 2 weeks straight on that because I inevitably end up "catching up" at some point.
Highways are only useful because there are so many of them that connect just about every community in the contiguous US - what economists call a "network effect". Therefore adding a new highway tends to make the other highways and roads it's connected to more useful. Likewise, public transit systems like the NYC subway are useful because there are so many of them.
When the first train is built in a metro area, it's not going to be useful to very many people. As more lines are built, however, that first train line becomes useful to more people because they can transfer to another line, or a bus line. As the third and fourth lines are built, the marginal utility of that each new mile of tracks goes up as the train becomes feasible for more people.
Of course there are examples of both highways and trains that probably shouldn't have been built where they were built (http://streets.mn/2014/07/07/strangulation-on-the-green-line...). My point is that cost comparisons of building a new highway versus building a new train are skewed by the fact that most metro areas have a mature (even crumbling...but that's another point) highway system, but few is the US have a large network of public transit yet, other than buses that are often slow, late and dirty.
Yup, partially comes from there and partially from a lot of the other research on willpower that has been coming out lately. While some of it has proved to be a bit overstated (at least in the press) and there probably isn't literally a such thing as "cognitive energy", I find it a helpful metaphor. Once you realize that you and others have a finite amount of it, you can start thinking clearly about how you spend it and why. The concept in your head doesn't have to be a 100% accurate reflection of reality to produce useful changes.
IMHO Apple's user interfaces have been getting less intuitive and more buggy with every release. I actually had to use Google to figure out how to disable shuffle on my iPhone.
Another annoyance with iTunes is that they removed the border. If it's placed over a white background, you can't tell where the iTunes window ends. Minimalism done right can be a beautiful thing. When it's done wrong (it's very difficult to get right), it's a disaster.
That to me shows an income disparity of approximately 20,000 between white (and asian) men and black (and hispanic and native american) men 6 - 8 years after getting an MBA.
StubHub could easily look at the historic pricing data and the normal cancellation rates for tickets. If the cancellation rate is normally low, except for instances where the ticket price suddenly jumped, then any cancellations in that time frame would likely have a high probability of being fraudulent, especially if the same tickets were later relisted through the same sellers account.
