Incentives
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Incentives
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
– Upton Sinclair
The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner
Richard Dawkins • The Selfish Gene
“nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.”
One thing I didn’t realize until later in life is how the incentives of an industry shape your mood, your outlook, and even your character. In early stage investing, the incentives reward optimists, so it literally pays to keep an optimistic outlook. In journalism, the opposite… Show more
Overpowered Metrics Eat Underspecified Goals
ribbonfarm.com
a lot of the magic of ChatGPT is nothing to do with AI, it’s just nice to consume high-quality internet content without ads or whacky custom formatting.
the sad thing is, this isn’t a technology problem at all, it’s a business model, copyright & incentive problem. and I’m not… Show more
incentives are everything
Writely (Google Docs) | Acquired Podcast
acquired.fmTackle the Monkey First:
"Let’s say you’re trying to teach a monkey how to recite Shakespeare while on a pedestal. How should you allocate your time and money between training the monkey and building the pedestal? The right answer, of course, is to spend zero time thinking about the pedestal. But I bet at least a couple of people will rush off a... See more
Incentives are everything.