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People naturally optimize for "not getting into trouble" rather than for "figuring out the truth".

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  1. Wes Kao Co-founder of Maven, the cohort-based course platform
    It’s a natural human tendency to optimize for “not getting into trouble” rather than “figuring out the truth.”

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    ↗Defensible, but not goodnewsletter.weskao.com

    22 Jul 2026

    All 2 korrents from this piecethis one is 1st

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