Marcel Mairhofer

Checklists don’t help you if you’re stupid about the checklist. You’re just not going to use it.

In the past, trust was purely social (think the caveman days). Then it switched to trusted institutions (banks, governments, companies) which was a step up, but we still had to rely on the other parties goodwill, or their incentive to behave in the right way.
The problem today is that institutions have become the sole gatekeepers of trust. We are st

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Which project would I most regret not having accomplished by the time I'm 80—given the motivations I have for the foreseeable future?

Good decisions create time, bad ones consume it. Good initial decisions pay dividends for years, allowing abundant free time and low stress. Poor decisions, on the other hand, consume time, increase anxiety, and drain us of energy.
Multitasking, in short, is not only not thinking, it impairs your ability to think.
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 Part 1 - Introduction Mechanism Design - Programming human behavior through carefully designed incentives. Humans are goal-oriented machines that react to incentives. Incentives are produced by economic games that can be crafted and engineered. So we humans do something to reach a goal, and one of the most unifying goals is money. So we desi

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