The Rationalist Community

Brad Stone: I wanted to write a book based on rigorous evidence. And one of the interesting things about Bezos, is he always assumed that it wouldn't work and then said, how could we make it work given these conditions? That was actually incredibly useful to some of the earliest products at Amazon. He says there's so much focus on this kind of turning the lens the critical lens on your own beliefs. "I espouse in this guy mindset, noticing the ways in which your own judgment is flawed"