I'm always cautious about making assumptions of "intelligence" from the outside, for people who have expertise or experience that I don't have. Back in the Rea

I'm always cautious about making assumptions of "intelligence" from the outside, for people who have expertise or experience that I don't have. Back in the Reagan days, it came out that his presidential decision-making process for most things was to get it on a one-page memo with a yes/no checkbox. Boy howdy, did we have a lot of fun mocking that idiot who didn't know what he was signing! A lifetime later, I've come to realize that was a brilliant strategy on his part. He didn't waste time on deep study of every little thing that needed his decisions all the time. He surrounded himself with trusted advisors who could neatly sum up the pros and cons for him, so he could focus on the decision, not the analysis. I thought Reagan was an idiot, because I was an idiot.