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Philosophers David Hume and William James both understood the smallness of the individual human mind compared to the vast expanse of nature and society, and they emphasized the irrationalities of the human mind when facing the daily problems put before us. If we are building principles for politics, we need approaches which are relatively fortified
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The lesson from cases of people both keeping and losing their jobs is that as long as you keep your boss or bosses happy, performance really does not matter that much and, by contrast, if you upset them, performance won’t save you. One of the biggest mistakes people make is thinking that good performance—job accomplishments—is sufficient to acquire
... See moreJeffrey Pfeffer • Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't
the Collective Intelligence Project (CIP), Anthropic's recently released Claude3 model, considered by many to be the current state-of-the-art in GFMs, sourced the constitution used to steer model behavior using Polis.
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
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Hans Morgenthau, the political theorist, has said that men don’t willingly accept the truth about human nature and especially about political nature. The aim of politics, Morgenthau says, is not to make people better or to alleviate their misery: it is to increase the power of one man or group of men against the power of another man or group of men
... See moreHoward Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
it’s not the person who makes the best decisions who comes out ahead, it’s the person who makes the most decisions.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
Effectiveness replaces morals as a yardstick for decision-making: the better I understand the way the world operates, the more I can achieve; the best decision is the one that begets the highest outcome.