Наверное, это касается не только математики, а вообще многих наук. Психологии / социологии так точно.
Кстати, мы тут чисто "for pleasure" статью опубликовали.
Поглядите, кого там на 76й странице напечатали 😁
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Maxim Dorofeev retweeted
Nassim Taleb sat down with Daniel Kahneman - two of the sharpest minds on risk ever - and the takeaway was blunt: stop trying to be smart
Kahneman's prospect theory explains why almost nobody can do what Taleb does
We're wired to hate the steady trickle of small losses his strategy needs - even when one huge win more than pays for all of them
So you structure it the other way: tiny safe bets plus a few wild ones, never the comfortable middle.
"You'd rather be antifragile than intelligent - any time."
"Trial and error is really just trial with small error."
"Make your gains in small bites. Take your losses all at once."
~1 hr, free. two legends on risk, prediction, and how to win without forecasting ↓
Nassim Taleb helps run one of the most famous crash funds on earth. His edge: having no idea what's coming
He and Spitznagel buy far out-of-the-money options non-stop, regardless of the news. They never forecast the crash - they just stay positioned so one shock pays for years of small losses
~10% a year in normal times. ~3,700% in a single crisis month
"We have absolutely no notion of the future. We just buy the options."
"If you have a reason in mind to buy an option, don't - it'll already be priced in."
"Up the escalator, down the elevator."
~25 min, free. how the world's most famous crash-trader actually makes money ↓
Metaphors: powerful tool or logical trap? 🤔
They reveal what logic can't—but can also mislead if used carelessly.
Do you use metaphors correctly?
New post (excerpt from my 3rd book on applied rationality): substack.com/home/post/p-199…
#CriticalThinking
New note live: Do You Really Know How Much Your Time Is Worth?
Key ideas:
✦ Your time DOES NOT have an implicit hourly rate — even if you can calculated it.
✦ "Doing it yourself" often costs less even if you don't think so.
Read on Substack:
👉 cartmendum.substack.com/p/do…
Here are the 3 most common beginner objections.
“I don’t write tasks down because…”
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In the Finnish language there’s a great word called “multipasking” (derived from Finnish word “paska”, which translates to “crap”), which means doing multiple tasks at the same time, and all of them equally badly.
Here is my new note on this: cartmendum.substack.com/p/mu…
Using "dopamine" and other words from neuroscience does make one sound smarter. Even if he or she is not…
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Here is me new note (it's going to be a part of my 3rd book): cartmendum.substack.com/p/ad…
Many fear that, if they start to favor personal life over work, they might get fired at some moment. At the same time, the fear of getting “fired” from personal life is either much less significant. Although…
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How does one "not have enough time?"
“I didn’t have enough time” has long been one of my favorite cliché phrases...
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A Reason Why Chats Need More Discipline: cartmendum.substack.com/p/a-…
Why so many people willingly wear themselves out at work has always been a mystery to me. Even if they don’t even like their job — and any job becomes unlikeable if you grind it for long enough.
cartmendum.substack.com/p/th…
So, who here tries to answer every colleague’s message right away — just because you feel bad making them wait?
Here is my ne post on that: cartmendum.substack.com/p/th…
My new post about "urgent" tasks
Is dealing with "fires" really that important?
substack.com/home/post/p-185…
Mindfuel: Your Brain's Premium Gas… or Its Brake Fluid? open.substack.com/pub/cartme…
«Ты меня не дослушиваешь. Ты меня додумываешь и потом с этим же споришь!» - фрагмент рабочих дискуссий.
Новое видео, но про старое. Про удачу, Ричарда Вайзмана (@RichardWiseman) и смартфон.
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