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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
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It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
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If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
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Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
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This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
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One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
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I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and…
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Be on guard against any tampering with the Word, whether disguised as a search for truth, or a scholarly attempt at apparently…
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As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time,…
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At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the…
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The best newspapermen I know are those most thrilled by the daily pump of city room excitements; they long fondly for a…
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To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets…
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Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.
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I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found…
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If the first lady is concerned about this Internet cycle, what would she have done during the heyday when there was 12,…
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Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the…
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The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a…
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