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Kahneman et al. presented 867 jury-eligible subjects with descriptions of legal cases (e.g., a child whose clothes caught on fire) and asked them to either Rate the outrageousness of the defendant’s actions, on a bounded scale, Rate the degree to which the defendant should be punished, on a bounded scale, or Assign a dollar value to punitive damage
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When you allow specialists to work with more focus, they produce more, and this extra value can more than compensate for the cost of maintaining dedicated support.
Cal Newport • A World Without Email
Justin
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Regardless of how much of a marketplace you serve, you still want 10–20 clients of your expertise at any given point.
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
Our society has a love/hate relationship with quantification. The consensus is that we’ve OD’d on numbers and need to step back into a more intuitive state. I certainly feel that and find value in it too, but I’m still a number-head.
“Essays Using Google Data,”
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz • Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller
employees have trouble committing to a decision when they perceive the process as unfair.
Morten T. Hansen • Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
Christopher Peterson
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