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You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
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fallacy that it takes Supermen to forge super teams.
Stanley McChrystal • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Banks and other industries have “know your customer” rules so that they can’t do business with anonymous clients laundering money from criminal enterprises. Large social-media platforms should be required to do the same. That does not mean users would have to post under their real names; they could still use a pseudonym. It just means that before a... See more
Jonathan Haidt • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
Human beings often cling to their certainties for fear that their opinions will be proven false. But a certainty that cannot be called into question is not a certainty. Solid certainties are those that survive questioning. In order to accept questioning as the foundation for our voyage toward knowledge, we must be humble enough to accept that today
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experimental-history.comThis form of explanationless science is just bad philosophy disguised as science.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
The evolution of Steve Albini: ‘If the dumbest person is on your side, you’re on the wrong side’
Jeremy Gordontheguardian.com