Foragers evolved to tell stories so that readers think they get characters better than those characters get themselves, or than their associates get them. https://t.co/NnQ96lw3IF
"every theory is going to have a similar structure: it will posit an initial modification, show how it was adaptive, then explain how it gave rise to a second major trait, then the third, and then finally the fourth. For example, Hariri posits the following sequence: 1. intelligence, 2. language, 3. cooperation, 4. culture. … Henrich, by contrast, posits the following sequence: 4. culture, 3. cooperation, 2. language, 1. intelligence."
But if it was your nerds meeting their nerds, they'd get along fine. It is because the other side sends their sales Chad to represent them than your side needs to as well.
This developing story about Dario's failed communications with the White House confirms everything I've ever believed about the enormous power of the Sales Chad.
You can be the smartest, most hard working, well-meaning guy around, but if you can't get people to like you, it's all for nothing.
When the time comes to send one of your own to meet inside the Halls of Power, you don't send the Geek Squad. You must send the affable, beer-drinking, golf-loving Sales Chad.
It literally doesn't matter if he understands the product half as well as everyone else. You send him. It's what he was put on Earth to do.
"if there had been no expectations that bubbles would form at all, then the US economy would have grown even faster. The crowding-out effect of future bubbles more than outweighed the benefits of the crowding-in effect from the two bubbles." https://t.co/DYb1DoPIEo
"Artificial Intelligence (AI) … accounted for 40% of all [job] cuts announced in May — up from just 7% in January, 25% in March, and 26% in April." https://t.co/HCZ19a4on6
"We exogenously vary the coarseness of the grading scheme while holding candidate performance constant. … managers extract systematically higher signals from inflated grades, behaving as if candidates with As represent a positively selected pool." https://t.co/CGtK9LUgjK
"complex regulatory requirements … two distinct complexity effects: an increase in honest mistakes and a substantial shift toward self-serving dishonesty."
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If you put "student driver" warning on your car, others keep more distance & you less likely to suffer accidents. But almost no one does this, even though they have plausible deniability that their student happens to not be in the car at the moment. Why don't you do this?