Sunday, April 25, 2021

Brain Food: Friendship, Habits, and Fluency

FS | BRAIN FOOD

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"What I've urged is the use of a bigger multidisciplinary bag of tricks, mastered to fluency, to help economics and everything else. And I also urged that people not be discouraged by irremovable complexity and paradox. It just adds more fun to the problems. My inspiration again is Keynes: Better roughly right than precisely wrong. And so I end by repeating what I said once before on a similar occasion. If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands."

Academic Economics

EXPLORE YOUR CURIOSITY

★ "Most people know to support people they care about during hard times, but there are fewer people who are going to hang with you through the good times, who are going to take time out of their calendar to have fun on a regular basis."

The Structure of Friendship

★ "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Goodhart's Law

★ "Our dinners weren't talking all about Apple tariffs and technology. I'd say 75% was talking about life. To be a good CEO, to get things accomplished, you have to be personable, you have to be a good communicator and a good listener, and Tim was all of those things."

The Fortress that Tim Cook Built

TO THINK ABOUT

"My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing."

— Ernest Hemingway

TINY THOUGHT

The quickest to be offended are the easiest to manipulate.

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