The Problem With Algorithms

The difficulty is always getting reliable data. Once people know that there's a given algorithm that's going to make decisions on that basis, the real problem is gaming the system. And what was cool with him, back to your question of other things that stuck out in the book, along with that algorithm thing and what you just said about putting the right data in. I remember this coming up in the podcast interview between him and Tim Ferriss. He talked about going back to historical periods and trying to find matches for our current times.