Workbook Edits for “Making Good Decisions”: Vol. 1 – Part I: Our Shared Humanity, Section#11: Outcomes Create Four Types of Players
For new readers, please read the “Pinned Post” titled Why Use Public Peer-Review to Write a Book? - “See for Yourself”.
For returning readers and subscribers, this post presents the eleventh section from the workbook for Vol. 1 – Part I: Our Shared Humanity.
See below the downloadable pdf file for this two-page section, as well as a summary description of the section.
Section#11: Outcomes Create Four Types of Players - Earlier sections showed how Rodolfo LLinás, Hannah Arendt, and John Boyd gave us an internal “Model of Self” that enabled the mapping of external “Task Environments”, and the positioning of foundational decision-making programs such as the Logic & Statistics Program, the Heuristics & Bias Program, and the “Fast & Frugal” Heuristics Program. This section presents observations from an Italian professor of economic history, Carlo M. Cipolla. In a paper first published informally in the early 1970s, and titled “The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity”, Cipolla measures intelligence, or stupidity, by observing decisions, actions, and their outcomes on the self as well as others. This humorous essay by an academic economist, and author of 21 book became his greatest popular success because it conveys life-enhancing common sense ideas, and verbalizes connections that often go without saying. Humor, a self-reflective art form, helps science touch the heart of the matter by piercing the veil of propaganda to reveal, the concealed, the simulated, or the forgotten. Readers can see this for themselves by double-checking the matching conceptual overlay between Cipolla’s chart and the “Task Environments” chart derived earlier from Llinás, Arendt, and Boyd’s work, and first presented in Sections #6, 7, & 8. These observations enable the mapping of individuals in their matching “Task Environment”, and represents the first of several overlapping maps coming for different areas of knowledge.
Developing…
”CTRI by Francois Gadenne” writes a business book in three volumes, published serially on Substack for public peer-review. The book connects the dots of life-enhancing practices for the next generation, free of controlling algorithms, based on the lifetime experience of a retirement age entrepreneur, & continuously updated with insights from reading Wealth, Health, & Statistics research papers on behalf of large companies as the co-founder of CTRI.