Tag: decision making
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The Comfort of Games, The Chaos of Life
A reflection on Nassim Taleb’s Ludic Fallacy and the risks of mistaking models for reality When the Game Ends One of the ideas that stuck me after reading The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, is something he calls the Ludic Fallacy. The word ludic comes from games. The fallacy lies in believing that the…
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Where Your Attention Goes, Your Life Follows
On Why avoiding the wrong things often leads us straight to them
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The Debt, The Delay and The Lesson
Here is an old story I had come across years ago. Back then it felt like a simple tale, almost forgettable. As the years passed, I realized how much of the choices we make in life is reflected in it. The Debt No One Wanted To Face Ramesh had borrowed one thousand rupees from his…