Sendhil Mullainathan
15 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 2, 2021 by Sendhil Mullainathan · across every show →
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Feb 2, 2021
Mullainathan: Trust granular criticism over summary judgment on creative ideas
“Most people don't do that. They give you the summary judgment. Oh, I think this is not a good idea. Oh, I think this, you know, there are very few people for whom you can trust their summary judgment. So I think for me, the first issue is trying to be very ope…”
Feb 2, 2021 positive
Mullainathan: Articulated knowledge is always superior because others can improve it
“Articulated knowledge is always better than unarticulated second. Sure. You think you have good taste, but once you've tried to articulate those rules and communicate it, guess what? Other people can improve on that.”
Feb 2, 2021 bullish
Mullainathan: Knowledge workers will increasingly review objective 'game tape' of decisions
“I think where we're going to head with this is already seen in sports is that an athlete has a coach who sits with them and looks at the tape.
Shane Parrish: Right.
Sendhil Mullainathan: The tape is the objective.
Shane Parrish: And I'm going to help you inter…”
Feb 2, 2021 negative
Feb 2, 2021
Mullainathan: Ideas should be graded by their generative depth, not mere recognition
“A lot of ideas have recognition capacity, meaning you can see them in the world, but they don't have generation capacity. What I mean is Once I've noticed this thing, so, you know opportunity cost. Once I've noticed this is an example of an opportunity cost th…”
Feb 2, 2021
Feb 2, 2021
Mullainathan: People want more time but dislike the perception of stretched time
“The irony of it is that when that's happening, you don't think to yourself, I've gotten more time.
You're like, oh, this day is dragging.
So there's something peculiar about our hedonic experience.
We all wish we had more time on, you know, our mortal coil wou…”
Feb 2, 2021
Feb 2, 2021
Mullainathan: Opportunity costs are hidden consequences excluded by decision framing
“And so I think opportunity costs are the hidden consequences that are left outside of your frame, whether it's for money or time, it's those things that then are neglected because they're exactly not part of how you frame this problem.”
Feb 2, 2021 positive
Mullainathan: Creators should take radical risks during ideation before execution
“Look, you could, you're just thinking you're not doing yet. So don't worry if you think, and the idea turns out to be awful, like a negative tail. You'll find out. It's okay. You'll find out in your head or while talking to people. Like, if you don't take risk…”
Feb 2, 2021 positive
Mullainathan: Designing for leader obsolescence forces founders to distill essential skills
“And if you think about this phrase program cell death, if you just ask yourself, what can I do with this idea, this research or with this organization that would let it do what it wants to do, but that makes me obsolete. That's actually a much better heuristic…”
Feb 2, 2021
Mullainathan: Alternating blocks of bold ideation and brutal pragmatism beats continuous balance
“I think they imagine the way things should look is A nice balance of boldness and pragmatism at every minute or hour. But really, I think it works much more effectively to be bold for days, and then switch on a dime and just be pragmatic for days. Because it's…”
Feb 2, 2021 positive
Mullainathan: Algorithmic feedback avoids the personal sting of human judgment
“So I actually think that the advantage of the algorithm over the person is what you said, which is that once you get used to it, you know, even your friend, when you told him this fact, partly he must have, however nicely you said it, felt the sting of judgmen…”
Feb 2, 2021 positive
Feb 2, 2021 positive
Mullainathan: High-fidelity articulation of others' views reveals arbitrage opportunities
“If you can describe someone else's perspective on a problem so well that they themselves say, oh yeah, that is what I'm thinking. Then, you know, you have an arbitrage opportunity because you've said it as well as they have, and yet you see something they don'…”