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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Letting us pick our own experts as a society leaves us listening to the loudest voice, not the most correct or beneficial.

Alex Morris • 3_TRENDS_Vol.12: Alex Morris: Assisted Socializing, Memory Management + Professional Amateurs

Experimental innovators like Rock, Brin and Page, Bezos, and Beethoven don’t analyze new ideas too much too soon, try to hit narrow targets on unknown horizons, or put their hopes into one big bet. Instead of trying to develop elaborate plans to predict the success of their endeavors, they do things to discover what they should do. They have all at

Peter Sims • Little Bets: How breakthrough ideas emerge from small discoveries

This implies that in niches where there’s too much information for any one person to absorb, the most economically efficient outcome is for media coverage of that niche to be dominated by exactly one person, who works fairly hard and has more comprehensive knowledge of the topic than anyone else.

Byrne Hobart • The Diff | Byrne Hobart | Substack

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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Richard Thaler tells of a discussion about decision making he had with the top managers of the 25 divisions of a large company. He asked them to consider a risky option in which, with equal probabilities, they could lose a large amount of the capital they controlled or earn double that amount. None of the executives was willing to take such a dange

Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow

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Michael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction

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As James Surowiecki explained in his best-selling The Wisdom of Crowds, this is the kind of task in which individuals do very poorly, but pools of individual judgments do remarkably well.