Two Poisons Make Salt
Atoms bond because of what they lack. The gap you have been hiding is the only place another person can attach. On complements, activation energy, and being the catalyst for somebody else.
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Trusting Your Gut Without Fooling Yourself
The first two posts said distrust yourself. This one says trust your gut. They are the same discipline. Kahneman, Klein, Simon, Ericsson, and the two questions that tell a real hunch from ego.
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How to Change Your Mind Without Becoming a Weathervane
Two ways to fail: the weathervane that turns with every gust, and the bunker that never turns. Five moves from Darwin, Popper, Tetlock, Munger, and Feynman for being a compass instead.
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