Very cool post here - thx for this I don't like the word "intuition" though because it insinuates that there's no logical reasoning behind the thought process.

Very cool post here - thx for this I don't like the word "intuition" though because it insinuates that there's no logical reasoning behind the thought process. Intuition to me is inductive thinking based on impartial information, rather than deductive thinking on complete information, which is often the case in many situations in life and in business. It's one of the key differences between bridge/poker (logic + "intuition/feel") and chess (complete information + purely deductive reasoning). I think of intuition more like a data bank you have in your mind, which only gets more accurate in a field that you apply yourself to over time. Accumulate a lot of data through hard-earned experience and your thinking starts functioning like a monte carlo simulation with all these reference points. It's also why one of my most favorite tweets of all time was by PG about how studying history refines this sort of judgment or "intuition" in your thinking: http://twitter.com/paulg/status/23203210182 http://twitter.com/paulg/status/23203210182