Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Why smart people defend bad ideas - scottberkun.com

Some great stuff in this essay...
We all know, or are, smart people who defend bad ideas...
hell, politics is full of em...
This essay makes a good jumping off point for analysing why it happens and what we can do to curb it.

Why smart people defend bad ideas - scottberkun.com

Put simply, the fact that you’re not dead yet doesn’t mean that the things you’ve done up until now shouldn’t have, by all that is fair in the universe, already killed you. You might just need a few more data points for the law of averages to catch up, and put a permanent end to your short term thinking.

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