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Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to…

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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…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

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The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. — Samuel Johnson
I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about… — Amby Burfoot
Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then:… — D. H. Lawrence
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time… — Alexey Brodovitch
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Clear focus is the mind’s magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever… — Sonia Choquette
It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us.… — Kim Stanley
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of… — Carl Jung
I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction. — Richard P. Feynman
When I left Africa in 1966 it seemed to me to be a place that was developing, going in a particular direction,… — Paul Theroux
One of the things that's driving films in a particular direction is that the after market value of them is dropping really… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura
Using your imagination to create mental images stimulates your mind, helps organize your life and keeps your focus in a particular direction.… — Georges St-Pierre

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