rookie mistake for smart people everywhere is to obsess over truth at the expense of memetic fitness
rookie mistake for smart people everywhere is to obsess over truth at the expense of memetic fitness
Rory Sutherland on why group decision making is often worse than personal judgement https://t.co/Gj6CRLLF40
“The beginner chases the right answers.
The master chases the right questions.”
The master chases the right questions.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On hard conversations, how to ruin a good strategy, and asking for what you want
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?
Laws of the Internet:
The term “cognitive biases” is arguably misleading in that it suggests that believing truth would be a kind of default. Arguably, it’s amazing that we manage to believe the truth at all. If you want your beliefs to be accurate, you’re constantly swimming against your own biology and instincts.Broadly speaking, I think we can identify three reasons ... See more
dynomight • Effectiveness beats accuracy
Being wrong often is the only way to be right – especially when you’re dealing with complex systems. This – in a nutshell – is the evolutionary organization thesis.
orca.mirror.xyz • Evolutionary Organizations
confirmation bias is often the difference between sounding smart and being right. And sometimes something much, much worse.