Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
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Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
"Brilliant men are often strikingly ineffectual; they fail to realize that the brilliant insight is not by itself achievement. They never have learned that insights become effectiveness only through hard systematic work."
Peter Drucker • The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)
The take-home message from Schelling’s story—that incentives sometimes backfire—is familiar to psychologists.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Stuart Armstrong gives closely related advice: Cut up your Great Thingy into smaller independent ideas, and treat them as independent. For instance a marxist would cut up Marx’s Great Thingy into a theory of value of labour, a theory of the political relations between classes, a theory of wages, a theory on the ultimate political state of mankind.
... See moreEliezer Yudkowsky • Rationality
First, be unreliable. Do not faithfully do what you have engaged to do. If you will only master this one habit you will more than counterbalance the combined effect of all your virtues, howsoever great. If you like being distrusted and excluded from the best human contribution and company, this prescription is for you. Master this one habit and you... See more