Description: The author has gathered a variety of resources, general theories, and specific practices concerning spreadsheet errors and their avoidance.

Description: A look at cognitive biases, which are common tendencies of people when thinking about issues and when making decisions. Confirmation bias and sunk cost effects.

Description: A look at business fraud as depicted by Dickens, from the novels Martin Chuzzlewit and Little Dorrit, and comments on its continuing relevance to business ethics today.

Description: An article on how to battle cognitive bias.

Description: In this report, we consider high-level results from provisional mortality data released from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2021, including looking at changes by sex and age group.

Description: This article summarizes Discover Your Inner Economist, a self-help book with practical advice for dealing with particular situations, informed by hard data.

Description: Letters to the editor about the feature article “The Dementia Epidemic: Are We Ready?” that ran in the December 2010/January 2011 issue of The Actuary.

Description: A review of the book "The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty" by Dan Ariely. The book is about lying, cheating, stealing, and shaving the truth -- something done by everybody, but the factors influencing this can be a bit surprising.

Description: This book proposes a four step process for you to take mental control of your development. You need to take charge and are solely responsible for developing your skills and knowledge.

Description: A review of the classic business book Built to Last, originally published in 1994. Looking at the past twenty years -- how have the BTL companies done? How have their comparison companies fared? Read the review and find out!