Robby Greer

“The platform can also use the extensive tool kit of revenue management techniques to shape which suppliers each buyer sees, and how prominently. It’s not too cynical to expect that a platform might use this power to feature lesser-known suppliers over more famous ones, all else being equal.”
― Andrew McAfee, Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

“You need to be so careful when there is one simple diagnosis that instantly pops into your mind that beautifully explains everything all at once. That's when you need to stop and check your thinking...Beware of the delirious guy in the emergency unit with the long history of alcoholism, because you will say, 'He's just drunk,' and you'll miss the subdural hematoma.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Getting rid of human judgments altogether—even those from highly experienced and credentialed people—and relying solely on numbers plugged into formulas, often yields better results.”
― Andrew McAfee, Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

“Our world is increasingly complex, often chaotic, and always fast-flowing. This makes forecasting something between tremendously difficult and actually impossible, with a strong shift toward the latter as timescales get longer.”
― Andrew McAfee, Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future