The Farnam Street Blog is about the pursuit of worldly wisdom by mastering the best of what other people have already figured out.

In 2011, I spent over 1,000 hours bringing you articles on how our thoughts are influenced; the causes of human misjudgment; culture; history; mental-models; and other nutritious subjects for your brain.

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I don’t really have a good answer to this question, so it might change at some point in the future.

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Given the large readership of the blog, sometimes people solicit me to write posts for money. Without exception, I always refuse.

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