'Cass Sunstein's Recommendation

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i was swimming at the ym ce when the seamale came in. As i was getting on my bike to go home, i opened my phone and saw that cass had responded to me. I just could not believe again, the kindness of a stranger. He's responding to my cold emal within a matter of minutes,. And he loved to have me interview with him two days later. It felt really like versation verses, an interview about what it could be like if the government created this new position for behavoral scientists.

Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host of A Slight Change of Plans.

”I am a type A person through and through. I love having the five-year plan and the ten-year plan, and mapping it all out. By nature, that's what I'm like. And I think the series of pivots that my life has naturally taken, or I've had to take, has kind of soured me on that whole way of thinking. […] Maybe it's also that I'm a more grateful person than I used to be. Like, I feel more gratitude, and so part of my orientation now is, well, how lucky am I that I even stumbled upon something?”

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