Here's another fun new podcast about NOBODY'S FOOL with Daniel Simons and the Oh My Fraud guys!
We’re All Somebody’s Fool | Dan Simons & Chris Chabris
youtu.be/zmc_NLw6RnM

The Swedish translation of my book with Daniel Simons, NOBODY'S FOOL, titled 'Förd Bakom Ljuset' (which roughly translates as 'Brought Behind the Light'), was published in April by Fri Tanke in Stockholm. Here's a new podcast about the book:
fritanke.se/podcast/chriso…

Campaign to bring “overmorrow” back into the English language, to mean “the day after tomorrow”

Great word.

Wikipedia has some very helpful spatial infographics

Another good razor is: Whenever someone says something really simple and easy is worth more than something complex and hard, they are wrong.

I can't believe how many people see knowledge this way.

Having knowledge IN YOUR HEAD is different from having it READY TO HAND.

An expert on architecture sees buildings very differently than the person with access to knowledge about architecture via the internet or AI.

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy

From Rory Sutherland piece in Spectator

Unfortunately there is fraud in science, just like there is fraud in every single field of human endeavor, because scientists are human beings.

Greg Kyte, CPA and I had a lot of fun talking to Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris for this one.

It is with great sadness that the Simons Foundation announces the death of its co-founder and chair emeritus, James Harris Simons. Jim was an award-winning mathematician, a legendary investor and a generous philanthropist. simonsfoundation.org/2024/05/10/sim…

Related poker tips:

*miss your flush twice? You’ll make it the next time for sure!

*didn’t flop a set in ten tries? The dealer is up to shenanigans!

*play a minimum of 6 to 7 tourneys each series so you guarantee yourself *at least* one cash.

Honored to see my book 'The Invisible Gorilla' (with Daniel Simons) included in this list:
7 Best Psychology Books Everyone Should Read
goodereader.com/blog/book-reco… via Navkiran Dhaliwal

A reporter just asked me: what famous experiment is dead wrong?

Of course I had to say the landmark illumination study conducted at the Hawthorne plant in the 1920s. Both academics and popular writers commonly summarize the results as showing that every change in light, even

Still mindboggling that Carol Grieder’s work on telomerase was deemed 'not worth of discussion' by an NIH peer review panel on literally the same day that she won the Nobel Prize, on the grounds that she didn’t have enough 'preliminary data.'

youtube.com/watch?v=t_fHGQ…

Jobs makes great points about consultants and why their work and advice can be superficial. However, by seeing a client as just one of many similar businesses, they can bring an 'outside view' to decisions that may be more economically objective than management's inside view.

A squishier form of academic fraud than outright fabricating data and results, but with similar consequences, is the citation cartel: chronicle.com/article/the-da…

How well do people know their own social abilities? Patrick Heck, Matt Brown, and I ran two studies (N=927) that each showed a surprising pattern: a negative relationship between people's self-rated skill and actual performance for social ability. People who rated their social skills

The con artist who impersonated a priest and delivered a sermon called “Honesty” nytimes.com/2024/04/19/nyr…