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Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly by John Kay
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One day, I asked myself a question: if these models were helpful, why did we not build similar models for our own decision making? The answer, I realised, was that our customers didn’t really use these models for their decision making ...more
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