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you don’t have to do the thought experiment, you just intuitively know how quickly you would mindlessly eat through the close one while the far one went untouched. All pressures exist along a spectrum. Availability isn’t black and white, and by adjusting the strength of the inhibiting pressure that is availability—that is, by putting M&M’s in your

All this does not mean that unions can serve no useful or legitimate function. The central function they can serve is to improve local working conditions and to assure that all of their members get the true market value of their services.

For instance: If you have a job, the single point of failure is your boss. Your security comes down to a single person or entity.

But what if two vice presidents and several managers above you at your job are internal fans of your work? You’d be:

1. More likely to be spared in layoffs


2. Able to switch departments if something happened to your role

If you want to improve your memory and concentration, you need to create a belief system that supports them.

think about how they relate to what is relevant for your own research, thinking or interests.

Study after study shows that individuals who are motivated correct more naturally—and more correctly, so to speak—than those who are not.

Steal one percent each from a hundred sources and connect those sources into one creation. That is how to steal properly. But that also requires a man to widen the input sources while understanding how to direct them into his vision.

but the little evidence you have is not trustworthy, so the base rates should dominate your estimates.

Times change. Circumstances change. That original knowledge base must always be updated. As our environment changes, we must never forget to revise and retest out hypotheses. The revolutionary can, if we’re not careful, become the irrelevant. The thoughtful can become…