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HAVE/SAY/DO When my partner gives me a big, playable gift and I want to show it I ask myself these three questions: What could I HAVE to show my gift? What could I SAY to show my gift? What could I DO to show my gift?
The Triangle of the Scene
Paul Vaillancourt
The other conclusion is what makes these superforecasters so good. It’s not really who they are. It is what they do. Foresight isn’t a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs.
Superforecasting
Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner
Interviewed Alain Bertaud at Stripe this morning, and he said something that I quite enjoyed (paraphrasing): "Part of the purpose of innovation is to avoid the Solzhenitsyn experience in *The Life of Denisovich*... where every day is predictable. That is the definition of inhumanity. As humans, we need change." I hadn't really thought about the idea of non-predictability as a positive good.
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