Mathias Meyer
Goodreads Author
Member Since
December 2013
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Riak Handbook
3 editions
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2011
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Forschungssubventionen aus wettbewerbspolitischer Sicht (Veröffentlichungen des HWWA-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Hamburg)
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“In complex systems, after all, it is very hard to foresee or predict the consequences of presumed causes. So it is not the consequences that we should be afraid of (we might not even foresee them or believe them if we could). Rather, we should be weary of renaming things that negotiate their perceived risk down from what it was before.”
― Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
― Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
“Arriving at the edge of chaos is a logical endpoint for drift. At the edge of chaos, systems have tuned themselves to the point of maximum capability.”
― Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
― Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
“If we adjudicate an operator’s understanding of an unfolding situation against our own truth, which includes knowledge of hindsight, we may learn little of value about why people saw what they did, and why taking or not taking action made sense to them.”
― Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems
― Drift into Failure: From Hunting Broken Components to Understanding Complex Systems

“Because we tend to be nice to other people when they please us and nasty when they do not, we are statistically punished for being nice and rewarded for being nasty.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow

“The worse the consequence, the greater the hindsight bias.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow