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Breaking: Elon Musk is Not Stupid
Smart people are uniquely vulnerable to mistaking complexity for insight.
An executive writes a ten-page memo that could be one. An engineer builds an intricate system when a simple one would perform better at half the cost. The consultant mesmerizes clients with frameworks that conceal rather than reveal. We attach prestige to what mystifies us. C... See more
An executive writes a ten-page memo that could be one. An engineer builds an intricate system when a simple one would perform better at half the cost. The consultant mesmerizes clients with frameworks that conceal rather than reveal. We attach prestige to what mystifies us. C... See more
Brain Food: Work Hard In Silence
One of the stupidest things I’ve repeatedly seen smart people do – I call this Advanced Stupid – is that they get so fixated on trying to optimize something complicated, that they forget to optimize for survival, and then they get knocked out of the game. Like having a startup trying to do something complicatedly clever, and then running out of mon
... See morevisakan veerasamy • Are You Serious?
Complexity gives a comforting impression of control, while simplicity is hard to distinguish from cluelessness.
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
