Decision Making

Decision Making

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1hr
“Let me walk you through the biggest traps that you should be aware of that are a danger to your financial wellbeing.”
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In this excerpt from "The Art of Spending Money," Morgan Housel lays out the spending and financial habits guaranteed to end in regret.
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5mins
“If you ask a computer, it will say, most of the time you want to either be raising or folding, right? You want to take an aggressive action or quit. I think this is a great metaphor for lots of things in real life, too.”
The image shows the book cover for "The Contemplative Leader" by Patrick Boland, with his name prominently displayed next to the text “an excerpt from” on a split pale blue and beige background.
A contemplative approach to leading others can help us accept the tension of not always knowing how things will play out.
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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17mins
"The sense that we are a solid entity, an unchanging entity that exists someplace in our body and takes ownership of our body, and even ownership of our brain rather than being identical to our brain, that is where the illusion lies."
A healthcare worker wearing blue gloves gently inserts an IV into a man's hand as he lies on a hospital bed, battling lung cancer.
Here in 2025, many of us claim to come to our own conclusions by doing our own research. Here's why we're mostly deluding ourselves.
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Annie Duke, a poker champion turned decision scientist, talks with Big Think about how to choose well under uncertainty.