I’m not sure what I can say that you wouldn’t already know about Marc, but I'll point you to some of his written work and his wonderful podcasts.
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.@PMarca wrote "It’s Time to Build" about our unpreparedness for the pandemic as it relates to our failure to build. He argues we see failure across the board: housing, education, manufacturing & transportation - not because of lack of money but because of lack of desire.
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No doubt, the piece is super provocative making it a must read.
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Of course, @PMarca is often part of the conversation on the @a16z podcast. Here is a recent one on the question of education but this podcast should be in your regular rotation (shoutout to @smc90!).
I am deeply grateful to @Pmarca and @smc90 for their support and championship of my work.
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I remember my surprise the summer after Thinking in Bets came out when I saw that Marc had tweeted out a recommendation for TIB, on a list of other books he was recommending. Such an honor (and those books are all must reads.)
Here is the conversation that Marc, Sonal, and I had a couple of years ago about Thinking in Bets. It was such a dream for me to get to explore the ideas in that book with such an intellectual giant (two giants actually … Sonal included!).
The most dangerous category of poor decisions are ones that remain easily hidden from view because any instance of that type of decision is so easy to rationalize.
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Trying to eat healthier?
It’s so easy to justify that piece of cheesecake because you just had a break-up. The ice cream you gobbled down few days ago? It was your kid’s birthday so you were celebrating! That bucket of popcorn last weekend? Movie night with the family!
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Each of these decisions are easy to rationalize on their own. They feel like justifiable exceptions.
That’s why they hide from view.
It’s only when you examine them in the aggregate that you can see they will frustrate your goals.
How to Decide comes out a week from tomorrow, Tuesday October 13th!
How to Decide truly stands on the shoulders of giants and one of those giants is @PTetlock, who was kind enough to blurb the book. Today I want to shine a spotlight on his incredible work and mentorship.
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.@PTetlock is most famous for his work on Superforecasting with his wife and collaborator, Barb Mellers. That work resulted in the must read, Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction which he wrote with @DGardner.
Today I want to highlight the work of the fabulous @katy_milkman, who was kind enough to read and provide a blurb for my new book, #HowToDecide.
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Katy is a professor at the Wharton School and an expert on behavior change, committed to helping people understand how they can better shape their habits and achieve their goals.
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.@katy_milkman is the host of #choiceology, a wonderful podcast dedicated to helping people make better decisions through telling compelling stories + conversations with guests that are a who’s who of behavioral economics.
.@katy_milkman says "Years at the White House uniquely prepared Cass—a world renowned behavioral scientist — to write this important book. .... (cont'd)
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"...His must-read arguments about when governments should and should not require companies to disclose information draw on entertaining anecdotes supported by rigorous research." - @katy_milkman on @CassSunstein