Sublime

The take-home message from Schelling’s story—that incentives sometimes backfire—is familiar to psychologists.

Il faut à la fois mondialiser et démondialiser, croître et décroître, développer et envelopper, conserver et transformer.

try to keep two things in mind in a world that’s this vulnerable to chance and accident. One is highlighting this book’s premise—to base predictions on how people behave rather than on specific events. Predicting what the world will look like fifty years from now is impossible. But predicting that people will still respond to greed, fear,

Three major shifts have made such algorithmic coordination increasingly important in modern business.

Narrow experience made for better chess and poker players and firefighters, but not for better predictors of financial or political trends, or of how employees or patients would perform.

continuous performance management,