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Risk-Driven Development and Decentralization (with Satvik Beri)

Jul 11, 2021

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Introduction

2min

How to Use Risk-Driven Development to Improve Your Career

2min

The Importance of Getting User Feedback

2min

The Difference Between Following Advice and Understanding the Causality

3min

The Law of Equal and Opposite Advice

2min

How to Design a Good Feedback Loop

2min

How to Get Better Feedback

2min

The Importance of Feedback in Social Skills

2min

How to Improve Your Body Language Reading

2min

10.

How to Improve Your Body Language

2min

11.

How to Build a Habit That Works in Real Life

3min

12.

How to Build Confidence in Interviews

2min

13.

The Importance of Micro Feedback in Sports

2min

14.

How to Build a Good Feedback Loop

2min

15.

The Importance of Noise in Stock Market Investing

2min

16.

How to Make Money Trading in the Stock Market

2min

17.

The Nature of the Market

4min

18.

How to Deal With Asthma

2min

19.

The Different Methods of Solving Problems

2min

20.

How to Backward-Chain a Life Goal

3min

21.

How to Do Forward Chaining Better Than Backward Chaining

2min

22.

The Power of Forward and Backward Chaining in Startups

3min

23.

The Relationship Between Local Optimization and Global Optimization

2min

24.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Backward Chaining

2min

25.

The Importance of Plotting Information

2min

26.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Centralization Versus Decentralization

3min

27.

The Importance of Decentralization in Startups

2min

28.

The Importance of Centralization in Decentralization

2min

29.

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Decentralization

2min

30.

The Benefits of Decentralization in Business

2min

31.

The Importance of Different State Laws

2min

32.

The Importance of Centralization

2min

33.

The State Model of Economic Success in the US

2min

34.

The Positive and Negative Effects of State Competition on Tax Breaks

2min

35.

How to Centralize and Decentralize Your Business

2min

36.

The Benefits of Centralization Over Decentralization

3min

Read the full transcript here.

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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