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Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
That is, the most effective learning looks inefficient; it looks like falling behind.
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Sharon Lee added 6mo ago
Superforecasters’ online interactions are exercises in extremely polite antagonism, disagreeing without being disagreeable.
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Abhilash Rao added 5mo ago
we often just use the data people put in front of us. I would argue we don’t do a good job of saying, ‘Is this the data that we want to make the decision we need to make?’”
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Katharina Sommerkamp added 2mo ago
Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.
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Sharon Lee added 6mo ago
Deep analogical thinking is the practice of recognizing conceptual similarities in multiple domains or scenarios that may seem to have little in common on the surface.
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Abhilash Rao added 5mo ago
learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress. That is, the most effective learning looks inefficient; it looks like falling behind.
from Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by (Journalist) David Epstein
Abhilash Rao added 5mo ago
learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress.
from Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by (Journalist) David Epstein
Sharon Lee added 6mo ago
Going where no one has is a wicked problem. There is no well-defined formula or perfect system of feedback to follow. It’s like the stock market that way; if you want the sky highs, you have to tolerate a lot of lows.
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Katharina Sommerkamp added 2mo ago