How to Improve Your Body Language

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I think that once I had a better sense of what body language patterns were common, it was easier to start associating them with different meanings. And then over time, you have to kind of convert that system to reflective understanding into kind of an intuitive one where you can use it in real time without thinking about it. It's really interesting how people like yourself who, you know, didn't naturally develop the ability to read body language, they have to start with like an intellectual understanding,. Like many people, probably most people, just pick it up and they never really think about it.

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What is risk-driven development? How should we weigh advice, best practices, and common sense in a domain? What makes some feedback loops better than others? What's the best way to take System 2 knowledge and convert it to System 1 intuition? What are forward-chaining and backward-chaining? When is it best to use one over the other? What are the advantages and disadvantages of centralization and decentralization?

Satvik Beri is a cofounder and head of Data Science at Temple Capital, a quantitative hedge fund specializing in cryptocurrency. He is a big believer in the theory of constraints, and he has a background helping companies find and eliminate major development bottlenecks. Some of his interests include machine learning, functional programming, and mentorship. You can reach him at satvik.beri@gmail.com.

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