Problem based management is a management approach dealing with how to organise companies for rapid idea improvement. To achieve rapid idea improvement, you cannot make your people "think harder" or "behave better" (impossible), instead you have to systematically counter the many

Sky have deleted this monologue about the UTK march yesterday So let’s make sure we share it far and wide

There are ~350 different proofs of Pythagors' theorem. In school, you are forced to reproduce 1 of them (say proof #14) and you get points subtracted if you go anywhere outside of #14 but still prove it. And points subtracted if you do not perfectly reproduce the notations used

‼️ Important barrier to making progress in companies‼️ ➡️ explaining failure or success at the level of 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙮𝙥𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙙. For example, by saying things like: - It was a success because "the good people" did it: those with the right attititude,

RT @ConjectureInst: Conjecture Institute Advisor David Deutsch @DavidDeutschOxf talks to @ToKTeacher about how to reverse academia’s stagna…

What (I think) I learned from the great @BobMurphyEcon on banking Listen to Seeking Good Explanations on Spotify for Creators

Economics in four short lessons: 1. Value is subjective 2. People respond to incentives 3. Knowledge is dispersed and coordinated by markets 4. There are no solutions, only trade-offs

𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙍𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢 (⚠️not the same as "critical thinking" ⚠️) 𝘕𝘰𝘵 doing Critical Rationalism, is typically doing any of these things: - avoiding problems (potential improvements) by

One of the main insights (for me) from critical rationalism: our knowledge/ ideas merely "move" a problem forward (make a situation incrementally better). Our ideas never solve a problem entirely so that the problem is completely gone. So there is no such thing as a perfect

Very cogent and accurate replies by Netanyahu. He omitted only one important clarification: In Israel's extreme proportional-representation system, the Cabinet necessarily includes open opponents of government policy. This is the opposite of the case in the US and UK systems.

An 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 contains proposed choices& actions and their expected desired and undesired consequences on a situation. It also contains arguments for why those are desired/ undesired respectively. 𝙀𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧-𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 is the process of 𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨

Like many in my generation, I used to despise humans and feel hopeless about the future. The book “The Beginning of Infinity” single-handedly turned me into an optimist. It made me see humans and the universe in a completely different way. Here are some of the most important

𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙢𝙨 (how to grow, become more efficient, offer more value, persuade that prospect, drive employee engagement, ...) 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 "What to do next, <to accomplish that goal>, and why <that way, and not some other>?". 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙

How did the field of quantum computation come about? Listen to Conjecture Institute Fellow @maria__violaris explain the origins of quantum computation by way of @DavidDeutschOxf's thought experiment and the problem it was designed to solve:

https://t.co/T9pw7szhRg

𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙢 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜: not in problem definition, but in solution creation. Problem definition typically goes well: focus is on understanding a situation better, through observation, data analysis and logic

Often believed to be "critical thinking" but 𝙣𝙤𝙩 actual critical thinking: 1️⃣ Assigning a credence (degree of belief) to a theory, and using evidence to change that credence 2️⃣ Assigning a degree of reliability to a source of an idea, and using evidence to adjust that degree

It takes work to refute "Governments can run city grocery stores", and it only takes hope (=an emotion) to accept that "Governments could have a chance at running city grocery stores" #Mamdani

@crostipunctus Also, if Israel controls America, then why do Dem and Repub policies towards Israel differ? Do the Israeli overlords just happen to change their preferences exactly in tune with the alternating rhetoric of American administrations?

Nitpicking still possible, but the kind of difference is relevant: - 𝙁𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙨 are either true or false (binary) - 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨/ 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 contain (plenty of) mistakes (not binary) Mistakes are contradictions between purported causes for some effect, or

Reading Kotkin about the soviet is realizing how they really did try being socialist. They did centrally plan the economy and it failed. We understand why it should have failed due to the impossibility of economic calculation. I don't get why I wasn't simply told this when