Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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Blaten least Olin from Daniel Kahneman's famous book Thinking Fast and Slow. The difference between playing guitar or playing a sport as an expert who is all sort of automatic and you're in the flow zone versus someone who's overthinking things like that. But I want to go further than that to thinking really slowly not just being cognitive and doing a math problem but taking a breath, thinking about the context that some certain problem or situation resides in.

Welcome to that beloved Mindscape annual tradition, the Holiday Message. An opportunity for a quicker and less-well-thought-out solo episode to round off another year. Ironically, this year the theme is the importance of slowing down and thinking things out really well! Illustrated by two things that have been on my mind: a couple of internet/tech kerfuffles (Elon Musk buying Twitter, Sam Bankman-Fried and the collapse of FTX), and the distinction between foundations of physics and “regular” physics. See if you can dimly perceive the thread that ties them together.

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