Scott Page
10 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 2, 2019 by Scott Page · across every show →
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Apr 2, 2019 negative
Page: Organizational efficiency pressures erode cognitive diversity in mental models
“When I go work for a firm, or if I'm working in an organization, you know, stock analyst, psychologist, whatever I'm doing, mental models that we use are like local interaction models. Right? I mean, like, it's like, oh, you're using that metal model. It's eas…”
Apr 2, 2019 positive
Page: Regressions only diagnose failures while models enable institutional design
“That's a question you can't touch, really, with, by running regressions necessarily, other than to identify the places where it's not working, right? But you can use models to help you kind of think through, what if we made this a market, right? What if we mad…”
Apr 2, 2019 neutral
Page: Successful people wrongly assume they won purely due to individual ability
“People who are successful by definition have, are in, have always won and they're in power and they think I'm good because I'm here because I'm good. And they typically are. And they tend to think they're there because they've had a lot of ability. They have a…”
Apr 2, 2019 neutral
Scott Page: Firm and species lifespans both follow power-law distributions
“The lifespan of firms, some of them can be really short, but if you happen to get really big, you're going to last a long time. That should be a power law, and it is. It's also true that the lifespan of species phylogenera in ecology, you can think of that as …”
Apr 2, 2019 positive
Scott Page: Making sense of complex systems requires ensembles of diverse models
“One way you can make sense of complexity is by throwing ensembles of models at both. So one of them may explain 20%, another 15%, and it's not that they add up to a hundred percent that they're explaining everything. In fact, if there's overlap, there's even s…”
Apr 2, 2019 neutral
Scott Page: Big winners in positive-feedback markets depend as much on luck as skill
“If you thought, no, this person sold these books because they're just so much better, right? That's a very different story than if you say, no, just the natural process of people buying books leads to big winners. Then you start realizing, you know, the big wi…”
Apr 2, 2019
Page: No single person can understand complex companies like Amazon
“There's so many dimensions to a company like Amazon or Disney, right, that there's no way any one person can understand it, and so what you want is you want cognitive diversity, and what that cognitive diversity means is people who have different, you know, li…”
Apr 2, 2019 negative
Apr 2, 2019 neutral
Page: In multidimensional competition, there is no universally best profile
“One of the nice things that both those models sort of tell us is that there's kind of no best answer, because like you're going to win relative to how someone else is, so it's a strategy, it's more like a game, it's strategic, and there's no best thing you can…”