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• Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories. I take a huge pile of data and I…
• After all, your chances of winning a lottery and of affecting an election are pretty similar. From a financial perspective, playing the…
• Solving a problem is hard enough; it gets that much harder if you’ve decided beforehand it can’t be done.
• The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.
• When people don’t pay the true cost of something, they tend to consume it inefficiently.
• The gulf between the information we proclaim & the information we know to be true is vast. In other words: we say…
• Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live.
• If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely…
• Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry.
• No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.
• I do think that the standard media is controlled by the conventional wisdom about global warming. We've come to believe - from…
• Many of life's decisions are hard. What kind of career should you pursue? Does your ailing mother need to be put in…

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