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"The traps that interested me most [...] were Familiarity (failing to remain vigilant when faced with the known), Social Facilitation (everybody’s doing it, so it must be OK) & Expert Halo (the experts must know what they’re doing, & so it’s safe to unquestioningly follow them)."

sound familiar???

"The broad solution, Ryan said, to avoiding all heuristic traps is group decision-making, constant communication and the regular practice of emotional vulnerability." Not, in any way, things that are valued in our societal leadership or mainstream stories #NarrativeDisorder

"All-female groups, Ryan told us before lunch, make better decisions in risky situations than all-male groups or mixed-gender groups."

"When asked why women became less smart in the company of men, Ryan speculated -" I'm going to stop you right there, Ryan.

"shame and denial inhibit the reporting of human-triggered avalanches, which subsequently reinforces a culture of silence and impedes the sharing and disseminating of instructive stories in which the main characters do not choose wisely."

----> "Here’s why all avalanche courses should include at least one novelist." <----

"I wondered why these case studies were called accidents. To call these deaths and burials accidents implicitly perpetuated the idea that the randomness of nature was the killer, not the shortsightedness, cowardice or hubris of people."