#Todd Simkin

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• Todd Simkin on teaching by judging the decision process, not just the results
  When people discuss decisions that they’ve made, try to shield the person giving feedback from knowing the results
• Todd Simkin on the principle of charity in conversations, negotiations, and trading
  The principle of charity is about thinking the best (in all relevant dimensions) of anyone whom you interact with
• Todd Simkin on conversation techniques that seem dull but actually help others think and reason
  The mere act of verbalizing an issue helps us seeing it from a different perspective. Also, “I wanna help. Tell me more”
• Todd Simkin on how to calibrate and improve your probabilistic assessments
  Experiment (detachedly) and compare results with what you expected. Note: this works with repeatable, frequent events
• Todd Simkin on overcoming cognitive biases by communicating well with the right kind of group
  Being able to bring in other people to the decision process in a constructive way beats anything else in truth finding
• Todd Simkin on Lev Vygotsky’s ideas of teaching by finding the apprentice’s zone of proximal development (ZPD)
  There’s a zone of things that you know. Somewhere outside of it is the ZPD, where you can move into with proper support
• Shane Parrish and Todd Simkin on cognitive shortcuts, belonging, and tribalism
  We can’t reason all from first principles. We need rules. Avoid wrapping identities up into the rules of tribes though