Brené Brown: The Power of Vulnerability
In this TED talk, Brené Brown, who studies vulnerability, brings us into how we can live a more meaningful life. Brown went back to the research and spent years trying to understand what choices …
Uncertainty Avoidance
Blindness to the Benefits of Ambiguity
“Decision makers,” write Stefan Trautmann and Richard Zeckhauser in their paper Blindness to the Benefits of Ambiguity, “often prove to be blind to the learning opportunities offered …
Economists Are Overconfident. So Are You.
The point of regression analysis is to make predictions based on past relationships. “My concern,” one of the authors of the paper said, “is that when reading economics journal …
The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire But Reject Creative Ideas
You’d be hard-pressed to find a person or organization who says they’re opposed to creativity. It’s seen as an unequivocally good thing. Everyone wants to have creative ideas. But we don’t always …
Daniel Kahneman: Some Thoughts on Thinking
While Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow, gets all the attention, he’s also written a few articles that might catch your interest on thinking better. Optimistic Bias: In …
Future Babble: Why expert predictions fail and why we believe them anyway
Future Babble has come out to mixed reviews. I think the book would interest anyone seeking wisdom. Here are some of my notes: First a little background: Predictions fail because the world is too …
Hiring and the Mismatch Problem
“We want to cling to these incredibly outdated and simplistic measures of ability.” — Malcolm Gladwell *** Hiring is difficult and we tend to fall back on antiquated tools that give us a …