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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.
I dove into work showing that highly credentialed experts can become so narrow-minded that they actually get worse with experience, even while becoming more confident—a dangerous combination. And I was stunned when cognitive psychologists I spoke with led me to an enormous and too often ignored body of work demonstrating that learning itself is best done slowly to accumulate lasting knowledge, even when that means performing poorly on tests of immediate progress. That is, the most effective learning looks inefficient; it looks like falling behind.
If we knew how many species we’ve already eradicated, we might be more motivated to protect those that still survive.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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