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Michael Lewis on Freakonomics Radio

Against the Rules with Michael Lewis

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Understanding Strengths and Weaknesses

Sam Bankman-Freed was exceptionally bad at understanding how people would feel about his behavior due to a lack of emotional intelligence stemming from being isolated in childhood. However, he excelled in quantifying the unquantifiable by approaching life as an expected value calculation, replacing principles with probabilities and making decisions based on maximizing expected value.

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