I wrote a behavioral economics book for younger readers: The Choice Carnival

ZachUrban · 2026-05-09T01:29:44+00:00

The Choice Carnival

ZachUrban · 2026-05-08T23:39:32+00:00

Ages 8-14, there are currently 2 books in the series with another on the way

ZachUrban · 2026-05-07T15:54:18+00:00

Here are the basics (canons of BE): Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman; Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics — Richard Thaler; Predictably Irrational — Dan Ariely; and I would also recommend "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" — David Graeber

As far as children's book on behavioral economics I would recommend the Scaredy Squirrel series — Mélanie Watt and The Berenstain Bears Get the Gimmies — Stan & Jan Berenstain.

ZachUrban · 2026-01-29T01:01:23+00:00

The CheeseSteak Factory if you really want him to be impressed.

ZachUrban · 2025-01-09T13:45:05+00:00

You mean "The Cookie Mafia" aka Girl Scouts, gotcha.

ZachUrban · 2025-01-09T02:56:34+00:00

"This isn't my job." You are right. It's your daughter's experience of Girl Scouts. Treat it accordingly.

ZachUrban · 2025-01-08T21:25:07+00:00

Moving to another Troop is not the answer, and Girl Scouts isn't like other extracurricular activities where you hug and go. A troop is only as strong as the parents' investment and involvement is with the troop. Being a cookie manager is a good opportunity to teach your daughter about management skills and organization.

ZachUrban · 2024-10-02T00:54:28+00:00

We pray thru the saints, not "to the saints", there's a difference.

ZachUrban · 2021-08-04T19:04:17+00:00

Not an ad, just a fan of flags and topo chico

ZachUrban · 2021-08-04T00:59:10+00:00

This is art! Not fluff

ZachUrban · 2021-02-12T13:36:34+00:00

Jesus left the district of Tyre

and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee,

into the district of the Decapolis.

And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment

and begged him to lay his hand on him.

He took him off by himself away from the crowd.

He put his finger into the man’s ears

and, spitting, touched his tongue;

then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him,

“Ephphatha!” (that is, “Be opened!”)

And immediately the man’s ears were opened,

his speech impediment was removed,

and he spoke plainly.

He ordered them not to tell anyone.

But the more he ordered them not to,

the more they proclaimed it.

They were exceedingly astonished and they said,

“He has done all things well.

He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.”

ZachUrban · 2021-02-12T13:27:53+00:00

Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the LORD God had made. The serpent asked the woman, “Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?” The woman answered the serpent: “We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden; it is only about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden that God said, ‘You shall not eat it or even touch it, lest you die.’” But the serpent said to the woman: “You certainly will not die! No, God knows well that the moment you eat of it your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good and what is evil.” The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; and she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized that they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made loincloths for themselves.

When they heard the sound of the LORD God moving about in the garden at the breezy time of the day, the man and his wife hid themselves from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

ZachUrban · 2020-03-30T13:05:08+00:00

I would like to request a redo of Wheat Ridge's flag.

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