Why bother learning history, when history isn't likely to repeat itself? We take a look at what Cognitive Flexibility Theory tells us about the best way to learn from other people's experiences.
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Game analogies can be helpful when you're playing to win. But there's a limit to how useful they can be when thinking about life.
There's a saying commonly attributed to Charlie Munger that goes 'Take a Simple Idea and Take It Seriously'. Work out all the implications. Seek out all the case studies. Here's a story of two investors who did exactly that.
Accelerated Expertise is the best book we have on creating accelerated training programs today.
Range is a mediocre 2019 book by David Epstein that argues for the merits of being a generalist. Read this summary instead of the book, and subscribe to Epstein's newsletter instead.
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Notes on the expertise of evaluating expertise, from someone who's obsessed with it.
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Believability is a criterion for evaluating practical advice, originally articulated by Ray Dalio in his 2017 book Principles. These are some notes from practice.
Why it's important not to hold too tightly to any one explanatory narrative during a period of high uncertainty.
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