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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

by Robert A. Caro

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Jan 01, 2021 11:46AM

“Every social system, however strongly or weakly it clings to power, pretends that its rules will never be superseded.”
― James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

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“frame: the smarter you are, the better you are at constructing a narrative that supports your beliefs, rationalizing and framing the data to fit your argument or point of view.”
― Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

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“People who are bred, selected, and compensated to find complicated solutions do not have an incentive to implement simplified ones.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

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“When someone asks you about a coin they flipped four times, there is a correct answer: “I’m not sure.”
― Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

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“The decisions we make in our lives—in business, saving and spending, health and lifestyle choices, raising our children, and relationships—easily fit von Neumann’s definition of “real games.” They involve uncertainty, risk, and occasional deception, prominent elements in poker. Trouble follows when we treat life decisions as if they were chess decisions.”
― Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

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