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The weird arithmetic of coordinated action | Seth’s Blog Twenty handwritten letters received by someone in power are worth a hundred times as much as two…

“I don’t want to learn to be better,” is something we rarely admit. We don’t say: I don’t want to learn statistics, even though it will…

For generations, humans have been entrusting their lives to computers. Air Traffic Control, statistical analysis of bridge resilience, bar codes for drug delivery, even the way…

Kinds of incompetence | Seth’s Blog The second worst is the unaware sort. The work doesn’t meet spec, and we don’t even realize it. The worst…

Lulled | Seth’s Blog Selfish is easy. Short term is easy. Complacent is easy. Turning our head and ignoring the problem is easy. Going along to…

Learning is a journey of incompetence. First, we realize that there’s something we don’t know. Then we see that we’re going to be better at it,…

The experience of the now is often more vivid than a distant memory. As a result, we can make decisions in the future without enough regard…

Freedom is something we desire. The freedom to choose, to speak up, to produce, to follow our passions and our dreams. And organizations in search of…

Process is the investment we make in inefficiency now to prevent errors from costing us later. Jet airlines are the safest form of travel ever created,…

Good advice | Seth’s Blog The cult of consulting suggests that if you simply had better advice from someone who knew more than you, your problems…