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Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a goal, it ceases to become a measure. E.g. British colonialists tried to control snakes in India. They measured progress by number of snakes killed, offering money for snake corpses. People responded by breeding snakes & killing them.
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Einstein was deliberate in choosing which questions to tackle: In one of his more well-traveled quotes—which he may or may not have actually said—he reckoned that if he had an hour to solve a problem and his life depended on it, he’d spend the first fifty-five minutes making sure he was answering the right question. With so much evidence in its favor and with everyone from Einstein to Jobs in its corner, why, then, is questioning underappreciated in business, undertaught in schools, and underutilized in our everyday lives?
A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger
13. Paltering:
Journos & politicians deceive you without lying by using cherry-picked truths to create a false picture.
E.g. Journo asks a man if he's racist.
He says "How dare you!"
Journo reports: "He refused to deny he's racist."
Fact-check: true, but a shitty thing to do.
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