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That your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Meanwhile, some CEOs think as they talk, leaving people confused, trying to figure out what they are supposed to act on and what is just brainstorming. This leads to a reputation of “crazy-making,” since you seem like you’re constantly shifting what you want, reprioritizing—“moving the goalposts before I even understand the game,” as one frustrated executive once told me.

From Start-Up to Grown-Up - Grow Your Leadership to Grow Your Business

Alisa Cohn

Women's bodies evolved to suit the demands of bearing and rearing children and of gathering plant food. Men's bodies evolved to suit the demands of rising in a male hierarchy, fighting over women, and providing meat to a family

The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature

Matt Ridley

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