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Each company is trying to figure out how to strategize, how much to invest, what the technology should be. In a case like that, it’s not at equilibrium.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
people have a strong tendency to go along with the status quo or default option.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
the consequences of not deciding.
Dan Ariely • Predictably Irrational
Warren Buffett has a saying: “You don’t know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out.”
Andrew Wilkinson • Never Enough
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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
It was John Kenneth Galbraith, the hyperliterate economic sage, who coined the phrase “conventional wisdom.” He did not consider it a compliment. “We associate truth with convenience,” he wrote, “with what most closely accords with self-interest and personal well-being or promises best to avoid awkward effort or unwelcome dislocation of life. We
... See moreStephen J. Dubner • Freakonomics
Depressive Realism: Depressed people have a more accurate view of the world because they’re more realistic about how risky and fragile life is. The opposite of “blissfully unaware.”
Skill Compensation: People who are exceptionally good at one thing tend to be exceptionally poor at another.
Curse of Knowledge: The inability to communicate your ideas
... See moreOverspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
« The chief enemy of good decisions is a lack of sufficient perspectives on a problem. » Alain de Botton9