moneyball

We’ve created an acceleration and an explosion of choice, which will permanently leave us feeling fundamentally unsatisfied or under-optimized.

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.... What is important now is to recover our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more

Believing that everything will be better if only we gather more information commits us to endless searching and casting about, to one more swipe of the screen in the hope that the elusive bit of data, which will make everything clear, will suddenly present itself. From one angle, this is just another symptom of reducing our experience of the world ... See more

remember, "interesting" "inspiring" and "informative" are all at odds with "optimized"

“I think there’s this fear that if you become scientific about something, you’ll figure out that your feelings are unjustified and then you’ll experience this horrible thing: ‘I’m afraid of this, but I’m sort of being forced by my logical mind to believe this thing.’

I don’t think this is true at all.

I think your feelings are there for a reason. Log... See more

The Illusion of Progress : Action Bias leads us to believe that doing something – anything – is better than doing nothing , even when the action doesn’t actually move us forward. We equate busyness with productivity, mistaking motion for progress, and perceive novelty as innately valuable.