“When making decisions, instead of asking ourselves which option will give us the best results, we should be asking which option will give us good-enough results under the widest range of future states of the world.” psyche.co/ideas/why-efficiency-is-dangerous-and-sl…
Replay – Ken Grimwood
I do love a good time-travel story. A middle-aged man has a heart attack and dies – and then wakes up again as a young man back in his college days. Once he figures out what has happened, he sets … Continue reading
Commentators who don’t know what…
Commentators who don’t know what they’re talking about just make everything worse. twitter.com/LouieTheRed1/status/129919072367416115…
Stop whining! It just makes things…
Stop whining! It just makes things worse. twitter.com/NewsroomNZ/status/1298718427465412610
“To be led by a coward is to be…
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“To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.”
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.”
Octavia Butler—writing decades ago in a prophetic book set in the 2020s—on how (not) to choose our leaders www.brainpickings.org/2020/08/23/octavia-butler-pa… twitter.com/brainpicker/status/1297622916692168704…
The Myth of Choice — Kent Greenfield
When you need to make a decision, having more choices isn’t necessarily better: what really matters is ending up with a good result. Greenfield cites an old Burger King advert: “Choices don’t mean a thing when there’s nothing good to … Continue reading
Continuous improvement: “the government…
Continuous improvement: “the government is doing an excellent job of continually updating their response and strengthening border controls” www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2020/08/19/covid-19-b…
Hate Inc. — Matt Taibbi
The news is a consumer product. That’s the one thing that Matt Taibbi wants us to learn from this book. He lays out in great detail why the media has become such a monster: conflict is good for ratings, so … Continue reading
Don’t repeat misinformation, even for…
Don’t repeat misinformation, even for the purpose of debunking it! twitter.com/sciblogsnz/status/1293767650787565569