Hello friends! Welcome to the fourth edition of the weekly postcard. I hope you've had a great week. This week is all about trusting your gut. I have spent a lot of time thinking and reading about instincts, intuition, and gut feel. A great resource, the book "Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious" by Gerd Gigerenzer, has opened my eyes a bit to the fact that we rely less and less on our gut in a world that is increasingly throwing too much bad information at us. But our gut was designed for less-is-more rules of thumb decision making that in many scenarios is superior to logic-based or "data-driven" decisions which can be good for optimization or maximizing local maxima.
Postcard 4: Instincts
Postcard 4: Instincts
Postcard 4: Instincts
Hello friends! Welcome to the fourth edition of the weekly postcard. I hope you've had a great week. This week is all about trusting your gut. I have spent a lot of time thinking and reading about instincts, intuition, and gut feel. A great resource, the book "Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious" by Gerd Gigerenzer, has opened my eyes a bit to the fact that we rely less and less on our gut in a world that is increasingly throwing too much bad information at us. But our gut was designed for less-is-more rules of thumb decision making that in many scenarios is superior to logic-based or "data-driven" decisions which can be good for optimization or maximizing local maxima.