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Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment

by Daniel Kahneman

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David said: " Provides a lot of insights similar to those found in "Thinking Fast and Slow" but targets practical improvements in professional and organizational decision-making through specific policies and practices. Following principles of "decision hygiene", f ...more "

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The Cave Beneath the Sea

by Jean Clottes

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David’s Quotes

“It is healthier for us to have questions we cannot answer, than to have answers we cannot question.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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“We desperately need nonpartisan pro-democracy reforms to make our government responsive to the people's will. But when one party has abandoned its commitment to democracy, any reform effort inherently looks partisan.”
― Leah Greenberg, We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump

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“There were some obvious reasons why women responded to 2016 with righteous outrage: they'd watched an extraordinarily qualified female presidential candidate lose to an extraordinarily unqualified, hateful charlatan with a self-confessed record of sexual assault. But it wasn't just that.”
― Leah Greenberg, We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump

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“If you hear a “prominent” economist using the word equilibrium, or normal distribution, do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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“Americans of the nineteenth century were not inclined to leave to private lawyers any more than to public men the conception, execution, and interpretation of public laws. The conviction was generally that no aristocracy existed with respect to the Constitution. Like politics, with which it was inextricably joined, the Constitution was everybody's business. That attitude should prevail today.”
― Louis Fisher Congressional Research Service

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