Squibs

The ultimate goal for all humans is to have a better personal life and a better world. We only differ in how we think you get there. -Sheena Iyengar

I have decided that it is absolutely worth taking pains to introduce a variety of people into your life – a variety of perspectives, interpretations, heuristics, predictive models, and even preferences. Just be careful it’s not your spouse.

Nothing kills humor like a general and boring truth.

Deliberation is great if you want to increase confidence and agreement among the group, but not if you hope to increase the accuracy of your decision.

Deliberation most often fails because of information (“if most people think that, they’re probably right”) and social influence (fear of response being ridiculed).

Four big problems with group deliberation: 1. Amplifies errors, 2. Does not elicit info that their members have, 3. Cascade effects where the blind lead the blind, and 4. Group polarization.

Every abundance creates a new scarcity. With the abundance of ‘free’, the "attention economy" and "reputation economy" have risen in place of money as a currency. -Chris Anderson

All creation is war against cliché. –Colin Marshall

Science represents a rare balance of imagination and critical thinking that tells us whether a story that sounds good rises to the level of truth. (But science is not the same as truth-seeking. More on this soon...)

“If the goal of science is to make us feel awkward and ignorant in the presence of things we once understood perfectly well, then psychology has succeeded above all others.” –Daniel Gilbert

Note to self: Life is too short to spend it doing things that you wish would hurry up and end.