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Tim Harford • The Data Detective
Curiosity breaks the relentless pattern.
Tim Harford • The Data Detective
The Unaccountability Machine by Dan Davies is a fantastic book, which argues that people create these models because if you can reduce decision-making to an algorithm, or a formula, or a process, or a procedure, you avoid the risk of blame. Computer says no, effectively.
Instinctively, people love to codify things, and make them numerical, and turn ... See more
Instinctively, people love to codify things, and make them numerical, and turn ... See more
Adam Grant • Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?
Unfortunately, many of your friends and colleagues, and most of all your finance director or your bank manager, won’t like any of these new non-sensical ideas, even the valuable ones. That’s not because they are expensive – most of them are very cheap indeed. No, he* will hate them because they don’t sit comfortably with his narrow, reductive world
... See moreRory Sutherland • Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life
people have a general tendency to stick with their current situation.
Cass R. Sunstein • Nudge: The Final Edition
One thing that provokes curiosity is the sense of a gap in our knowledge that needs to be filled.