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Worldviews are the reason that two intelligent people can look at the same data and walk away with completely different conclusions—it’s not that they didn’t have access to the data or that they have poor reasoning skills, it’s simply that they had already put themselves into a particular worldview before you even asked the question. Marketing succeeds when enough people with similar worldviews come together in a way that allows marketers to reach them cost-effectively.

All Marketers Are Liars

Godin, Seth

Many people think “peer review” means “independent replica- tion and confirmation of results.” Peer review usually means months of delay while a few folks in your field write an email- length criticism of the paper and ask for more work. Peer review is not a panacea.

The Anthology Of Balaji

Eric Jorgenson

But the most characteristic and fertile developments of Greek philosophy took form with the Sophists, travelling teachers of wisdom, who looked within upon their own thought and nature, rather than out upon the world of things. They were all clever men (Gorgias and Hippias, for example), and many of them were profound (Protagoras, Prodicus); there is hardly a problem or a solution in our current philosophy of mind and conduct which they did not realize and discuss.

The Story of Philosophy

Will Durant

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