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#19 Rory Sutherland: The Psychology of Advertising

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Driver's Car Is the Easyest Thing to Dick Around With

The driver's car is the easiest thing to dick around with because its reactions are going to be entirely predictable. The military do not look for the most efficient route from a to b because they know it will be the one that's most heavily guarded. So there's a huge danger in looking at life as if it's an optimization problem in eve angle, which is a fundamental question about rationality.

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