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Some links on the relevance of rationality to entrepreneurship:

http://paulgraham.com/word.html (see the note at the end especially)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3795517



A good one is Why Businessmen Need Philosophy

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Businessmen-Need-Philosophy-AtlasS...


Hm, I don't think rationality and objectivism are quite the same thing. I was thinking more along the lines of

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

and

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...


Rationality =/= objectivism.

(At least, not in the context of LessWrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/ )




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