Farnam Street on getting things right vs being right

vutran | April 25, 2021, 2:33 p.m.

"When you care more about getting things right than being right, you get better outcomes and you save time and energy."

— Farnam Street

Farnam Street on the Common Denominator of Success

vutran | April 25, 2021, 2:32 p.m.

“The common denominator of success — the secret of success of every man who has ever been successful — lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.”  

— Farnam Street

On the expressiveness and effectiveness of visual channels

vutran | April 24, 2021, 2:52 p.m.

— Data Visualization Foundation on Coursera

Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner on foresight

vutran | April 20, 2021, 1:11 p.m.

"Foresight isn’t a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs." 

— Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner in Superforecasting

Matthew Teague on the truth about dying

vutran | April 18, 2021, 4:48 p.m.

"We don't tell each other the truth about dying, as a people. Not real dying. Real dying, regular and mundane dying, is so hard and so ugly that it becomes the worst thing of all: It's grotesque. It's undignified. No one ever told me the truth about it, not once. When it happened to my beloved, I lost my footing in more than one way. The tiled floor of life—morals, ethics, even laws—became a shifting and relative thing. I smuggled drugs. Lied. Hid money from the IRS."

— Matthew Teague

Albert Einstein on developing instinct for what one can barely achieve

vutran | April 17, 2021, 12:23 p.m.

“One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.”

— Albert Einstein 

Jack London on playing a poor hand well

vutran | April 17, 2021, 12:19 p.m.

“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.” 

— Jack London