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TCP handshakes in real life... needing feedback
How long you wait to determine if someone has ended the conversation depends on the medium, packet vs. phone call vs text vs email vs letter
Exponential back off as tool for restoring relationships
Every employee tends to rise to the level of his incompetence
The importance of active listening, feedback from the listener in back channels like nodding send yes and the other nonverbal signals are critical to the success of the story
The best thing in science is not “eureka” it’s “that’s funny...”
“Never is better than now” ... how to say goodbye to friends you don’t like to spend time with
The body is its own flow control... almost nothing is buffered in the human body
The Tactical dropping a balls is critical to getting things done in an overloaded state
Packet switching and it’s effect on society... we used to request direct circuits with people... now we send packets. We used to reject, now we defer.
Mixed blessing of buffers
The societal implication of latency
Speed vs bandwidth .... speed should be a first class citizen
Good summary of everything learned so far in the box
Predicting what the average opinion would think the average opinion to be… implications for elections
Noring colonies into a war of recursion against themselves
Nash equilibrium
The object of the study of mathematics is truth, the object of the study of computer science is complexity.
James branch Campbell the optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, the pessimist fears this is so
Tragedy of the commons
“The worry that people may leave relationships because it will later become rational for them to do so is largely erased if it is not rational assessment that binds them in the first place.”
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“Eventually You don’t need a contract to stay with them, you just need a feeling, even if there is possible another, better suited partner for you somewhere out there”
Love is like organized crime... it changes the structure of the marriage game so that the equilibrium becomes the outcome that works best for everybody”
Happiness is the lock. Marriage is a prisoners dilemma in which you get to choose the person with whom you’re in cahoots.”
The rationality for love
✨ “Suppressing qualms because of the apparent confidence of everyone else in the group.”
Such a thought provoking idea
How to project doubt, even went forward so as to clearly articulate your perception of value
Sometimes a game can have irredeemably lousy rules – – mechanism Design
Any game they can include strategically masking the truth can be converted into a game that rewards honesty
If you don’t want your clients to optimize for you, you better optimize the design of the game for them
