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My god. Reading through that list, it's amazing when anyone (including myself) ever manages to get anything done, or that society works as well as it does. Yea
by alex_c 18y ago
My god. Reading through that list, it's amazing when anyone (including myself) ever manages to get anything done, or that society works as well as it does.
Yeah, I guess I'm a glass half full kinda guy.
- nazgulnarsil 18y agoyeah, to be fair it is rather amazing what humanity has accomplished with a brain meant for running from cats on the savanna. but the vast majority of modern comforts is due to a small group of entrepreneurs.
- sofal 18y agoIt would be hard I think to name a more irrational group of people than entrepreneurs. May we be blessed with an abundance of the more altruistic among them.
- andreyf 18y agoThis list is precisely how we get things done - by building trusting relationships, ignoring data most likely to be distracting, and focusing on stuff that can hurt us.
- OneSeventeen 18y agoAnd, by contrast, this is why computers are so slow at some decisions: no biases or heuristics, no input prioritization, etc.