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• Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through…
• Success Comes Through Rapidly Fixing our Mistakes Rather than Getting Things Right the First Time
• We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.
• I see the God complex around me all the time in my fellow economists. I see it in our business leaders. I…
• Ten percent of American businesses disappear every year. ... It's far higher than the failure rate of, say, Americans. Ten percent of…
• You show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.
• There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The…
• If the whole process of learning from failure means discarding stuff that's not working, but in fact, our natural reaction is to…
• Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can.…
• Failure is inevitable; it happens all the time in a complex economy.
• Pluralism matters because life is not worth living without new experiences - new people, new places, new challenges. But discipline matters too;…
• The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to…

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