There’s this bit from ’s latest newsletter that haunts me.
The corollary, of course, is that we should aim to be such people.
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Is it close to that elusive idea of "common sense"?
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Is "not bad" the simplest way to practice common-sense?
Have found it helpful in many areas - personal finance, work, technology decisions, etc. - where decisions have long-term consequences.
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The smartest people only comment on things they are sure about, and leave uncertain propositions in quiet. I don't think they are necessarily smarter, rather, they show restraint and leave a smaller sample size for scrutiny.
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Personally, that's now how I define someone smart. Richard Feynman or John Von Neumann were constantly talking about things they didn't know, hypothesing, etc. But they were very well calibrated about what the knew and didn't know.
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