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 .62 R. Feynman ... to make progress, recognize ignorance and doubt

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Farsighted

How We Make the Decisions That Metter the Most

2018 Steven Johnson . . 153.83 JOH . . Beaverton Library

  • 04 1802 Fill Manhattan's Collect Pond, build houses, disease, Five Points slum

  • 08 Darwin two column technique, lists of "Not Marry" and "Marry" ... Marry, Marry, QED ... Emma Wedgwood 6mo later
  • 10 1772 Franklin pro-con columns, match and strike out, Moral or Prudential Algebra

  • 13 Kahneman's "Tninking, Fast..." System 1 intuitive fast, System 2 consciously think through
  • 17 bin Laden compound in Abbotabad Pakistan, leading to May 2011 raid
  • 21 Compare WMD??->Iraq War, failed helicopter rescue Iranian hostages, Bay of Pigs

    • 42 satellite -> 3D computer model,

  • 25 Complex decisions: require full-spectrum analysis, force predictions, involve conflicting objectives, prone to System 1 failings, vulnerable to groupthink
  • 35 Heights of (sic) Gowan, British forces flank Americans, Battle of Brooklyn, capture New York

  • 38 British sea power, Washington outnumbered, split troops, smart move to surrender the city
  • 56 floor hot but no smoke, recognition-primed fire commander orders men to leave, floor collapses just after
  • 59 Rumsfeld "known unknowns", identify blank spots on cognitive map
  • 62 R. Feynman ... to make progress, recognize ignorance and doubt

more later

Farsighted (last edited 2023-03-15 01:32:25 by KeithLofstrom)