Some ideas to keep coming often
…the more time we spend in the tower’s mirror world of abstractions and the higher we climb, the more important it is that we hold on to a fistful of mud.
Dunning-Kruger Effect : Knowing the limits of your intelligence requires a certain level of intelligence, so some people are too stupid to know how stupid they are.
Morgan Housel • 100 Little Ideas
Simplest explaination are often the best.
Take on Intellectual risk to do anything meaningful. Financial risk in the end gives hollowness of a kind. Intellectual freedom and risk taking should be basis for financial freedom and risk taking
We create problems for ourselves by using static language (e.g. judgements) to capture a reality that is dynamic & ever changing — by mixing observations and evaluations
- Do fewer things. 2. Work at a natural pace. 3. Obsess over quality.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Berkson’s Paradox : Strong correlations can fall apart when combined with a larger population. Among hospital patients, motorcycle crash victims wearing helmets are more likely to be seriously injured than those not wearing helmets. But that’s because most crash victims saved by helmets did not need to become hospital patients, and those without
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We map the world, ourselves included
Map is not the Territory
The map is not all the Territory - it is bound to leave out things on Territory
Maps are self reflexive - ie map maker may pretend to transcend the map but he is affecting the map making
Dogma says - “this is so”
Fiction says - “this isn’t so, but let’s pretend that it is”
Hypothesis says - “perhaps this is so; let’s see if it is”
Scientific thinking is about hypothesis ...