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Changing your mind in light of new facts should be celebrated rather than held against you.
Drawn from what Pieter Levels, Gergely Orosz and 2 others said
Mental modelProbabilistic thinking
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Pieter Levels Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held and change them when new information arises The dumbest people I know keep their opinions the same just so they can remain consistent Time changes too fast try remain consistent, better to sail the waves to wherever they are taking you! The smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly heldlevels.io · 7 Sept 2026
Their wordsThe smartest people I know have strong opinions weakly held and change them when new information arises The dumbest people I know keep their opinions the same just so they can remain consistent Time changes too fast try remain consistent, better to sail the waves to wherever they are taking you!
Gergely Orosz Writes The Pragmatic Engineer IDK why anyone has a problem with having strong opinions, weakly held. @GergelyOrosz on Xx.com · 7 Sept 2026
Their wordsIDK why anyone has a problem with having strong opinions, weakly held.
David Heinemeier Hansson Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals I'd rather celebrate people updating their priors than dunking on them for being late. Make it cool to change your mind when you realize the facts have changed! @dhh on Xx.com · 3 Sept 2026
Their wordsI'd rather celebrate people updating their priors than dunking on them for being late. Make it cool to change your mind when you realize the facts have changed!
Stephan Guyenet Obesity researcher with a PhD in neuroscience Inability to change one’s mind is a hallmark of an irrational belief system. Quickly assessing the credibility of public expertsstephanguyenet.com · 30 Aug 2018All 3 korrents from this piece
Their wordsInability to change one’s mind is a hallmark of an irrational belief system.
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Hansson and Orosz hold that changing your mind in light of new facts should be celebrated. Sivers says nobody actually decides on the facts — emotion decides and facts rationalise. If Sivers is right, the celebrated mind-change is usually a feeling that arrived first and found its evidence afterwards, which does not make it worth less but does make the reason given for it suspect.
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