Ideas to elaborate on later

Here are ideas and historical (no emotional connection to me) events that have fundamentally affected my outlook.

In no particular order

• Pareto Optimality
• Coase Theorem
• Hayek and Sowell on the limits and costs of knowledge
• Gresham's law
• Napoleon's invasion of Russia
• Dominant Strategies
  
• Schelling Points (as elaborated on by David Friedman)
• The seatbelts kill theory of Steven Landsburg (though the theory might actually originate with George Stigler)
  
• The diaries of Eric Hoffer (and his books, they're fairly similar) as they deal with mass movements
  
• Network effects
• Robert Nozick's notion of morality as a time saving device (morality is used very broadly) as explained in the Examined Life
• The defensive boxing style of Pernell Whitaker
  

I'll have more detail on what they are and how they are all used later.