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Be suspicious of stories | Tyler Cowen | TEDxMidAtlantic
distrust of objective storytelling.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
A compelling narrative fosters an illusion of inevitability. Consider the story of how Google turned into a giant of the technology industry. Two creative graduate students in the computer science department at Stanford University come up with a superior way of searching information on the Internet. They seek and obtain funding to start a company a
... See moreDaniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
almost all the inviolable, incontrovertible-seeming assumptions of our society can be understood not as inevitable facts of life, but as stories.