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[Koenfucius 🔍 @koenfucius]

Online games—games of chance, or skill? Discussion paper proposes a novel approach to establish whether outcomes depend for more than 50% on chance, and explains why poker is a game of chance, despite the existence of professional players: https://t.co/V1DTNP9tnY HT @andre_spicer

[Human Risk @HumanRiskLtd]

They say you never forget your first time. So I was delighted that @Gerald_Ashley chose the #HumanRisk podcast for his podcasting debut & what a debut it was!

In a wide-ranging discussion, we talked #Risk, #Uncertainty, #DecisionMaking & more.

🎧👉https://t.co/xpfgox3681

[Jake Courage @beernbravery]

“A hallmark of a healthy creative culture is that its people feel free to share ideas, opinions, and criticisms.”

- Ed Catmull, Pixar

[Specialist Speakers @Speaker_Bureau]

'too many dominoes and the dominoes are too close together' https://t.co/2e5SH9w5Ah #risk #fragility

[richard shotton @rshotton]

The Myers-Briggs personality test:

Originally designed to identify appropriate marriage partners

Has no basis in clinical psychology

Has no statistical significance to its retest

So why do 79% of FTSE 100 companies use it?

In Uncharted by Heffernan

[Human Risk @HumanRiskLtd]

#Ethics may not be top of mind in a crisis. Yet right now, we're seeing many firms facing ethical dilemmas. On Mon 6 Apr @ruthsteinholtz & I are hosting a free webinar on managing ethics in a disrupted world. 0900EST/1200BST/1300CET/2100 HKG.
Register 👉https://t.co/xdlDDOWBDg

[richard shotton @rshotton]

David Ogilvy’s 1982 advice on how to write

Including point 4, that using jargon is the “hallmark of a pretentious ass”

[richard shotton @rshotton]

If you want to be noticed, be distinctive; don't cling to category conventions, break them

Study from Reed into the isolation effect - 75% of people remembered the letters QXK when next to numbers, only 35% remembered the same letters when they were surrounded by letters

[richard shotton @rshotton]

A creative approach to pricing & stockpiling

HT @jamessmi

[Michael Wilson @MichaelWilsontv]

Forecasting in terrible times https://t.co/KnHPAwUBWw

[richard shotton @rshotton]

Experiment into the serial-position effect by Murdock: we're more likely to remember the first and the last items in a list

Y-axis shows probability of recall, the X-axis the position of the item in the list and the figures (e.g. 40-1) is the number of items on the list

[Lee Trott @MC372]

Very cool Optical Illusion.... that took me much longer than I'd like to admit to work out.... But These cubes are NOT SPINNING.... 🤯🤯🤯 (h/t u/Flynja)

[Applied Learning @ALCourses]

Just under two weeks to this - and nearly fully booked.
Late Birds are going to have to be quick
#risk #marketing #decisions #selling
https://t.co/QdTMOSATQm

[42courses @42Courses]

New study suggests reading classic fiction is best for mental health.

📚🤓

[richard shotton @rshotton]

Brilliant diagram from Alchemy by ⁦@rorysutherland illustrating why companies don’t get as much creative problem solving from their staff as they hope for

[Paul Craven @CravenPartners]

Even more relevant than when I tweeted it sixteen months ago!
#coronavirus

[Paul Craven @CravenPartners]

“Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.”
(Scott Dixon)
@MacKingShow: exceptional, masterful, sensational. Wonderful to watch Mac in England at #BMC2020 @Blackpool_Magic

[Specialist Speakers @Speaker_Bureau]

Making Better #Decisions - March 17 - some of our favourite speakers https://t.co/r8HhpkgLLv - including the brilliant @rorysutherland https://t.co/YYwqn07y0h #event #London

[richard shotton @rshotton]

Two fables about the paradox of progress

In Skin in the game