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Michael Lewis _ The Fifth Risk
It's the places in our government where the cameras never roll that you have to worry about most.
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Michael Lewis _ The Fifth Risk
It's what you fail to imagine that kills you.
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Michael Lewis _ The Undoing Project: A
After all, what is a marriage if not an agreement to distort one's perception of another, in relation to everyone else?
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Michael Lewis _ The Fifth Risk
Psychologists have long known that people see patterns where none exist.
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Michael Lewis _ The Fifth Risk
There is another way to think of John MacWilliams's fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to long-term risks with short-term solutions. "Program management" is not just program management. "Program management" is the existential threat that you never really even imagine as a risk.
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Michael Lewis _ The Fifth Risk
{"Resistance to understanding a threat grows with proximity," writes Kate Brown.}
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Michael Lewis _ The Undoing Project: A
I remember his words," recalled Amnon. "He said, 'There is nothing we can do in philosophy. Plato solved too many of the problems. We can't have any impact in this area. There are too many smart guys and too few problems left, and the problems have no solutions.'" The mind-body problem was a good example. How are our various mental events-what you believe, what you think-related to our physical states? What is the relationship between our bodies and our minds? The question was at least as old as Descartes, but there was still no answer in sight-at least not in philosophy. The trouble with philosophy, Amos thought, was that it didn't play by the rules of science.
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Michael Lewis _ The Undoing Project: A
Los sujetos no elegían entre cosas. Elegían entre descripciones de cosas.
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Michael Lewis _ The Fifth Risk
The sense of identity as Citizen has been replaced by Consumer. The idea that government should serve the citizens like a waiter or concierge, rather than in a 'collective good' sense.
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Michael Lewis _ The Fifth Risk
the risk we should most fear is not the risk we easily imagine. It is the risk that we don't. Which brought us to the fifth risk.
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Michael Lewis _ The New New Thing: A Silicon
The American Home of the Future, it went without saying, would be controlled and monitored by a computer. The computer would permit the owner to enter into a new, fantastic relationship with his dwelling.
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Michael Lewis _ The Undoing Project: A
Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions of authority...{it is} quite likely that the fate of entire societies may be sealed by a series of avoidable mistakes committed by their leaders.
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