Who Shane Parrish cites
Lines where Shane Parrish quotes or credits someone, and where others do the same for them. Every line is in their own words, with the page it is on.
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Charlie Munger
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Charlie Munger, the business partner of Warren Buffett and Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, is famous for his quote “All I want to know is where I’m going to die, so I’ll never go there.”
Inversion and The Power of Avoiding Stupidity · 28 Oct 2013
Credits
Charlie Munger applies the concept to life in general. He sought to answer the essential question: Where should we devote our limited time to achieve the most success?
Mastering Success: Navigating Within Your Circle of Competence · 1 Dec 2013
Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein used thought experiments for some of his most important discoveries. The most famous of his thought experiments was on a beam of light, which was made into a brilliant children’s book. What would happen if you could catch up to a beam of light as it moved he asked himself? The answers led him down a different path toward time, which led to the special theory of relativity.
Thought Experiment: How Einstein Solved Difficult Problems · 1 Feb 2022
Aristotle
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Aristotle produced the oldest known statement of the concept, saying, “We may assume the superiority, other things being equal, of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses.”
How to Use Occam’s Razor Without Getting Cut · 28 Oct 2019
Carl Jacobi
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That thinking was inspired by the German mathematician Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, famous for some work on elliptic functions that I’ll never understand. Jacobi often solved difficult problems by following a simple strategy: “man muss immer umkehren” (or loosely translated, “invert, always invert.”)
Inversion and The Power of Avoiding Stupidity · 28 Oct 2013
Daniel Kahneman
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The probabilistic machinery in our minds—the cut-to-the-quick heuristics made so famous by the psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky—was evolved by the human species in a time before computers, factories, traffic, middle managers, and the stock market.
The Value of Probabilistic Thinking: Spies, Crime, and Lightning Strikes · 14 May 2018
Robert Hanlon
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Hanlon’s razor is a mental safeguard against the temptation to label behavior as malicious when incompetence is the most common response.
Hanlon’s Razor: Not Everyone is Out to Get You · 16 Nov 2024 · The korrent
Warren Buffett
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Warren Buffett described circle of competence using one of his former business managers, Rose Blumkin, a Russian immigrant with poor English who built the largest furniture store in Nebraska:
Mastering Success: Navigating Within Your Circle of Competence · 1 Dec 2013
William of Ockham
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The concept of Occam’s razor is credited to William of Ockham, a 14th-century friar, philosopher, and theologian. While he did not coin the term, his characteristic way of making deductions inspired other writers to develop the heuristic.
How to Use Occam’s Razor Without Getting Cut · 28 Oct 2019