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We increased perceptions of value without changing the price.

In other words, be skeptical of yourself and of your own mind. Observe actively, going beyond the passivity that is our default state. Was something the result of an actual objective behavior (before you term Mary saintly, did you ever observe her doing something that would lead you to believe it?), or just a subjective impression (well, she looked

It’s clear to many that we’re already stepping into the age of wisdom work. Every CEO Dan Shipper points to the rise of the allocation economy, where the advent of AI means everyone will become a manager: “You won’t be judged on how much you know, but instead on how well you can allocate and manage the resources to get work done.” Being a great

best at this, that is, they have well-developed systems for killing ideas that their customers don’t want.

Beyond exploring how individuals differ in that need, Kruglanski has demonstrated that we can manipulate it in order to be more attentive and engaged—and to make sure we complete the correction stage in our judgments.

from startup companies to communication protocols. As he wrote in “The Greatest Game“: When creating new technology companies, a framework I use to understand if something has an ability to win is ‘the 10x advantage’.

Meaning that, unless a new company (the challenger) can deliver a 10x advantage to the market, it has no chance of creating escape

Overcoming few-shot friction There is one problem I’ve noticed with example-based prompting: Most creators and businesses aren’t using it. I think this is because you have to overcome three major inconveniences before you start to take advantage of few-shot prompting on a consistent basis: Upfront effort: A few-shot prompt is only as good as the

At the Heart of the State Is Coercion A state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory. —Max Weber, The Vocation Lectures, 1919