Charlie Munger’s 18 Biases That Cause You to Fool Yourself and Make Bad Decisions
Tag: bias
The Light by Which You See
Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
Flannery O’Connor in “Writing Short Stories” from her collection Mystery and Manners. (via malevichsquare) Filed under Flannery O’Connor.
On the other side of the class and educational divide (…) it’s easy to forget what it’s like not to know.
Zadie Smith, in an essay on E.M. Forster collected in Changing My Mind. The context is whether or not readers pick up on literary/cultural references. It made me think of Ezra Klein.
List of cognitive biases – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are fascinating.
Odds are good that you primarily know one sort of person: highly educated, high-achieving, extremely cerebral, etc. Odds are also good that you give too much weight to feedback and ideas from this sort of person, while discounting arguments and complaints from people who don’t know the right way to persuade you. Try to keep that in mind.
Ezra Klein – Common mistakes made by economists. (via) I’ve come across a lot of good posts about arguments and opinions.
Emotive conjugation – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Humans’ tendency to describe their own behavior more charitably than the behavior of others.”
Live | TEDxMidAtlantic: Tyler Cowen on Stories
Economist Tyler Cowen on stories and the risks of narrative-influenced thinking. Embrace the messiness of life.
Mark Larson 