Would you give away money? People did just that on Free Money Day writes the Toronto Star. Set up by The Post Growth Institute, Free Money Day questions the role of money and its importance in the world. Participants give away money and ask the recipient to pass half on to someone else.

Farnam Street blog takes an informative passage from a book about logic by Robert Gula that highlights some strange human tendencies. Among them are believing what we want to and generalising from a specific event. The post is a reminder that it can be helpful to research and consider a range of views when making important decisions.

Too often we forget the bad and remember the good – and this has implications for investing, says a column on behavioural finance in MoneyMarketing. It warns about the dangers of hindsight bias (or how looking back can make the world seem more predictable than it really is), framing and other thinking tricks and traps.