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Making Decisions Fast and Well
Summary:
We go through life making decisions. Should we date person extra wy or get married to them? Should we stay here, or should we move? What jobs should we
Transcript:
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Go through life-making decisions. Should we date person X or Y or get married to them? Should we stay here or should we move? What job should we choose?
Human minds have many irrational preferences: we love to speculate about wild and crazy innovations but cannot be bothered to fix common challenges by relying on practical innovation waiting to be implemented. Why do we not improve the boarding of planes rather than delude ourselves with visions of hyperloop trains and eternal life?
Numbers Don't Lie
Vaclav Smil
A formidable person is one who seems like they'll get what they want, regardless of whatever obstacles are in the way. Formidable is close to confident, except that someone could be confident and mistaken. Formidable is roughly justifiably confident.