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Rational Minds Part 5: Heuristics Make Us Smart - Gerd Gigerenzer

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Simon's Mane With So Many Talents

He loved to argue about everything. He also loved to be a little bit contrarian. I was amazed how much he knew from computer science to economics to psychology to biology and many things. His daughter told me that he knows him reading books books books booksBooks, never watched TV. And he also applied his own theory to himself. At some point he decided he doesn't want to waste time deciding every day what to eat for breakfast or for lunch. So he just fixed it and it made an habit of eating the same kind of cheese sandwiches. The word satisfying is a portmanteau of the word satisfy and suffice. Yeah.

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