Category Archives: From other books
Area 51, Annie Jacobsen, delancyplace.com
“From the moment it hit the airwaves, the War of the Worlds radio broadcast had a profound effect on the American military. The following month, a handful of ‘military listeners’ relayed their sanitized thoughts on the subject to reporters with … Continue reading
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations, Mary Beard
“Democritus, [was] the fifth-century philosopher and atomist renowned as antiquity’s most inveterate laugher. … In the philosopher’s home city, his compatriots had become concerned at the way he laughed at everything he came across (from funerals to political success) and … Continue reading
What Have We Done Today? Nixon Waterman
What Have We Done Today? Nixon Waterman We shall do much in the years to come, But what have we done today? We shall give our gold in a princely sum, But what did we give today? We shall lift … Continue reading
The American’s Creed, The Book of Virtues, William J. Bennett
P. 219 The American’s Creed, William Tyler Page In 1917, William Tyler Page of Maryland won a nationwide contest for “the best summary of American political faith. ” The U. S. House of Representatives accepted the statement as the American’s … Continue reading
Why We Make Mistakes, Joseph T. Hallinan
P. 2 To Err Is 90 Percent Human …. We all know the cliché “To err is human.” And this is true enough. When something goes wrong, the cause is overwhelmingly attributed to human error: airplane crashes (70 percent), car … Continue reading
Why We Make Mistakes, Joseph T. Hallinan
P. 25 Meaning Matters; Details Don’t Why should we remember faces, but not the names that go with them? Part of the answer is that when it comes to memory, meaning is king. 28 Names, it turns out….don’t mean much, … Continue reading
Why We Make Mistakes, Joseph T. Hallinan
P. 64 Hindsight Isn’t Twenty-Twenty …. In fact, one of the most significant sources of human error is hindsight bias Basically, hindsight bias comes down to this: knowing how things turned out profoundly influences the way we perceive and remember … Continue reading
P. 78 “Multitasking” is a term cribbed from the computer world; it describes a technique by which a computer can split up its work into many processes or tasks. This allows us to, say, run Microsoft Word while downloading something … Continue reading
Why We Make Mistakes, Joseph T. Hallinan
P. 92 How We Frame Issues ….A great many day-to-day errors come about because we frame, or look at, an issue in the wrong way. 93 Through a series of experiments they [Daniel kahneman and Amos Tversky] demonstrated that how … Continue reading
Why We Make Mistakes, Joseph T. Hallinan
P. 130 How Much of What You Say Is True? The most common alteration was omitting important details, which was reported in 36 percent of the stories. Exaggeration and minimization occurred about equally, appearing in 26 percent and 25 percent … Continue reading
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