If your beard is gray, produce heuristics/advice but explain the “why”. If your beard is white, skip the why, just say what should be done.
Skip the why.
via If your beard is gray, produce heuristics/advice… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Humans need to complain just as they need to breathe. Never stop them; just manipulate them by controlling what they complain about & supply them with reasons to complain.
They will complain but will be thankful.
via Humans need to complain just as they need to… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.
Daniel Kahneman, Henry Marsh, Michael Ignatieff and Lisa Appignanesi – 17th March 2014Mon,
Duration:42 mins
Tom Sutcliffe discusses how we make decisions with the Nobel prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman. Moral choices in politics can be a complicated business, according to the academic and former politician Michael Ignatieff, who explores whether the age of international intervention is over. Doctors work under the oath ‘do no harm’, but the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh says the decision whether to operate on a brain is rarely that simple. High emotion can cloud your judgement and the writer Lisa Appignanesi looks back at sensational crimes of passion to ask how far the perpetrators were responsible for their actions.
Evidence is poor risk management. Here is a table strange I didn’t think of framing things this way.
LARGE CITIES
The adage “magna civitas magna solitudo” (big city, big solitude) started in Arcadia, referring to a “large” city that would be smaller than today’s small towns. Not Sao Paulo.
via LARGE CITIES The adage “magna civitas magna… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.