Sam Liebeskind

So what can we do to ameliorate this problem? Making individuals better at thinking and seeing the blind spots in their own individual reasoning will only go so far. What we need are better collective means of thinking. As Hugo, Melissa and I argue here (academic article, but I think fairly readable), much of the work on human cognitive bias... See more

These other companies made shoes for a range of athletic activities, not just one sport. All the same, Weber’s resolve was strong. He was driven by a quote he wrote on his whiteboard on his first day as CEO of Brooks: “The secret to success is constancy of purpose”. This sentence stayed on the whiteboard for the length of his tenure, to remind him... See more

Perhaps this partly helps explain the sense of anger often seen among rural Americas. They have less local news — and don’t see themselves in their own media. Only 41% of those in rural areas said the local media mostly covered their communities; by contrast, 62% of urbanites said the local news had them covered. It’s likely that the decline of... See more

“and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?”