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id: 2026-04-03T20:02:25-0400
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title: 2026-04-03 20:02:25
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- authorship/other
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- exclude-from-word-count
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date-created: 2026-04-03T20:02:25-04:00
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daily: "[[2026-04-03]]"
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# 2026-04-03 20:02:25
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Excerpt from [[daniel-kahneman]]'s Nobel Prize biographical
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for his 2002 prize in Economic Sciences:
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> It must have been late 1941 or early 1942.
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> Jews were required to wear the Star of David and to obey a 6 p.m. curfew.
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> I had gone to play with a Christian friend and had stayed too late.
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> I turned my brown sweater inside out to walk the few blocks home.
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> As I was walking down an empty street, I saw a German soldier approaching.
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> He was wearing the black uniform that I had been told to fear more than others –
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> the one worn by specially recruited SS soldiers.
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> As I came closer to him, trying to walk fast,
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> I noticed that he was looking at me intently.
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> Then he beckoned me over, picked me up, and hugged me.
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> I was terrified that he would notice the star inside my sweater.
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> He was speaking to me with great emotion, in German.
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> When he put me down, he opened his wallet,
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> showed me a picture of a boy, and gave me some money.
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> I went home more certain than ever that my mother was right:
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> people were endlessly complicated and interesting.[^1]
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[^1]: [nobelprize.org](https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2002/kahneman/biographical/)
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