Mental Models
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(Extracted from The Success Equation – Michael J. Mauboussin) There’s a quick and easy way to test whether an activity involves skill: ask whether you can lose on purpose. … When your undertaking involves a...
September 8, 2019|
Randomness
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(Extracted from Wikipedia) An example problem, of a type generally attributed to Fermi, is “How many piano tuners are there in Chicago?” A typical solution to this problem involves multiplying a...
September 8, 2019|
Fermi Estimate
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(Extracted from Learning to Embrace the Chaos & The End of History Illusion by Ben Carlson) Being a contrarian is one of the most seductive positions to take because it allows you to feel like you’re smarter...
September 8, 2019|
Inversion
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We don’t see reality as it is. We form perceptions about how the world works.Like a map that tries to represent territories.Being cognitive misers, we rely on heuristics, making shortcuts in our thinking...
September 8, 2019|
Mental Models
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“It is not daily increase but daily decrease, hack away the unessential.” Bruce Lee...
September 8, 2019|
Via Negativa
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(Excerpt from Rework by Jason Fried) You don’t make a great museum by putting all the art in the world into a single room. That’s a warehouse. What makes a museum great is the stuff that’s not on the...
September 8, 2019|
Via Negativa
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(Excerpt from Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb) Many bad pilots, as we mentioned, are currently in the bottom of the Atlantic, many dangerous bad drivers are in the local quiet cemetery with nice walkways bordered by...
September 8, 2019|
Via Negativa
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(Excerpt from MayoOshin.com) A few years ago, before an airplane takeoff, Warren Buffett walked up to the pilot of his private jet, Mike Flint and jokingly said to him, “The fact that you’re still working for me,...
September 8, 2019|
Via Negativa
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“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. There must be some wisdom in the folk saying, ‘It’s the...
September 8, 2019|
Via Negativa
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(Excerpt from The Good Men Project) In 1501, Michelangelo, the greatest artist that ever lived, accepted a commission to carve a marble sculpture of the biblical David to be placed high atop a buttress on the...
September 8, 2019|
Via Negativa
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