Sublime

PILLAR III: THE PHILOSOPHY In business, sports and academia, an individual’s personal philosophies are the single biggest predictors of how they’ll behave, now and in the future – if you know someone’s philosophy or beliefs, you can accurately forecast how they’ll behave in any situation.

Game is what’s known as a predictive framework. It’s a set of social and behavioral skills. However, those skills are based on understanding men and women’s evolved natures. I take criticism for disassembling Game mechanics from both sides of the debate.

reason I insisted that an issue log be adopted throughout Bridgewater. My rule was simple: If something went badly, you had to put it in the log, characterize its severity, and make clear who was responsible for it.

we should follow a different decision-making strategy, known as “the maximin rule.” To be precise, rather than choosing the option that is best on average (maximizing expected utility), we should compare the worst outcome under each option, and then choose the option where the worst outcome is as good as possible