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the bakkwa of lim chee guan

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i just put up the full essay on why good strategy must understand affect (feelings in general, including emotions), not just cognition: https://vaughntan.org/strataffect also summarised in the thread reposted below

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rice cooked with lotus root, pork rib, ginger, garlic, and scallions

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when i use LLMs to help me write about ideas which i believe are novel (or novel idea framings), the LLM outputs need so much work that it is easier to write everything from scratch. this is not the case when i use LLMs to summarise ideas/concepts which are both well-established and which have strong consensus on the concept definition.

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ostensibly a gel from F. pumila seeds, but i have doubts

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Most strategic mistakes don’t come from just bad planning. They come from misdiagnosing the types of unknowns your strategy is set up to deal with. And the consequences of misdiagnosis are rarely obvious — until it's too late. More here: https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/p/dontwait

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when we call something a "risk," we instinctively apply risk-management methods for making decisions about it (such as cost-benefit analysis, expected value analysis). the problem is that many things we label as "risks" are actually uncertainties: they aren't well-understood and quantifiable enough for the assumptions needed for CBA/expected value analysis to hold. more on this here: https://vaughntan.org/how-to-think-more-clearly-about-risk

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i'm writing a series on 7 misunderstandings of strategy. this is #3, about why good strategy must account for affect/emotion and not be over-focused on cognition. read them all here: https://vaughntan.org/strategy will post the full essay by end of the week. meanwhile, as a series of casts below 👇

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itap of a public interest announcement

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itap of a brise soleil

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a banh mi, with the correct bread (high in rice flour, crisp and crackling, not crunchy) toasted enough, mayo splitting in the heat, and abundant sweet pickles, stuffed with pan fried beef rolled in leaves of piper sarmentosum

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itap of advanced science

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the problem with expertise is that only experts in a domain can properly evaluate expertise in that domain

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mmm renaud boyer

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i stopped in at a curatorial space today, and learned some things about traditional indonesian textile: 1. no current indigenous fibres are used (nearly all imported cotton yarns) 2. there is no continuity of knowledge in natural dyeing 3. whole bolts of dyed and unpatterned cloth are rare 4. there is a yarn mafia controlling access to the best yarns

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in the last few weeks, I've been asked to make a bunch of introductions. most of the requests made doing the introductions both harder and less effective. so i finally wrote up guidance on how to ask for an introduction: https://vaughntan.org/fir (it's based on what i do, and what i recommend my students do)

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itap of self-publishing

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