Smart Things I’ve Read Lately

My intuition isn’t any less fallible than yours. It’s always getting things wrong. I have, however, learned never to be ashamed of it. I don’t disdain my mistakes, I don’t push them aside, because I don’t think that they betray my intellectual inferiority or some cognitive biases hardwired in my brain. On the contrary. Nothing’s more exciting than

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It’s enormously disorienting to simply say, “I don’t know.” But it’s infinitely more rewarding to understand than to be right — even if that means changing your mind about a topic, an ideology, or, above all, yourself.