The Importance of Positioning in Decision Making

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One of the classes you took at Penn was an aesthetic approach to decision making.
And you learned about decision making through chess.
I want to talk about this class because it left a huge impact on you even to this day.
Chess is a deterministic game, and the amount of information that is possible other than what's in your opponent's head is fully there.
Whereas in a game like poker, you don't fully know and can never fully know what was kind of beneath the cards, because they're hidden.
This metaphor for me, because my father growing up in a lot of the quotes that I used to read, always talked about aspects of position, but without ever using the words position.
The concept of like, don't burn your bridges, because you may have to cross that bridge one day is a form of positional chess.
Right? The concept of the harder I work, the luckier I become is a form of positional chess.

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