Decision Making

Here's a good article on Decision Making by David Brooks
"....our tendency to see data that confirm our prejudices more vividly than data that contradict them; our tendency to overvalue recent events when anticipating future possibilities; our tendency to spin concurring facts into a single causal narrative; our tendency to applaud our own supposed skill in circumstances when we’ve actually benefited from dumb luck."

Great Articles

Here's an article about Obama by a noted conservative commentator, David Brooks.
"There has never been a moment when, at least in public, he seems gripped by inner turmoil. It’s not willpower or self-discipline he shows as much as an organized unconscious. Through some deep, bottom-up process, he has developed strategies for equanimity, and now he’s become a homeostasis machine"

And here's an article by Suresh Menon on Tendulkar after his test record.
"As remarkable as his record is his self-possession. His head hasn't changed size, his boots haven't grown smaller. He alone knows what it means to be Tendulkar, with its frustrations, its sacrifices, and the need to be Tendulkar at all times. He is a one-man university that teaches sportsmen how to handle money, fame and pressure."

The Real Great Depression

Here's an excellent article that talks about the real great depression that has strong [and scary] parallels to the current economic crisis.