Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
Our brains have evolved to detect patterns and attribute significance to events that are entirely random, imagining signal where there is mostly noise. This tendency is probably hypertrophied in writers, who are constantly seeing the world in terms of narrative. In fact, for a while, encountering this very sentiment in books became yet another
... See morehe says there's a blind spot as the overwhelming mythology methodology for research in economics
has been to take observations over a short period time as if cause and effect sit on top
ick says if it's a single best thought you have ever had in your life it needs to dominate everything because you're not going to get many insights like that and
if it's your single best Insight your single best idea then obviously it's what you should spending all your time on