Should we be dumb, knowingly bad, or friendless?
Reducing the costs of the Goalkeeper Problem and hidden objectives in decision-making.
One football goalkeeper is biased and dumb. One is informed and rational. One has no ego. Everyone likes the first two, but the third one wins games (and we don’t let them play)…
“I know what you’re thinking” And I’m wrong.
A look at Pluralistic Ignorance in team decision-making and how to banish it.
Sometimes, I assume you agree with me and never think to check. Sometimes, I assume you disagree and I keep quiet to avoid the conflict. Rarely, do I stop to wonder how wildly inaccurate my assumptions might be, or what it could be costing us both…
How I learned to stop analysing and love the choice.
The hidden costs of being intellectually curious and evidence-led.
“You’re not thinking… you’re just being logical” said Niels Bohr (who makes for a surprising repudiator of logic, being a Nobel prize-winning theoretical physicist). As a deep-rooted-rationalist myself, it took me an embarrassingly long time to notice the costs, and to realise what Bohr meant…
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