Podcast Notes Key Takeaways

• Sometime in the next few decades, an algorithm, or a robot powered by an algorithm, is going to do whatever you do, better, faster, more reliably, and cheaper
• When you use Google, Facebook, or Amazon, they’re all gathering data on you
  • They’re then able to use that data, and monetize it
• We tend to think that the more information we get, the better decisions we’ll make – that’s not usually true
  • Extra information, just feeds our confirmation bias
  • We tend to have our decisions made, after receiving only a few pieces of information – more information just makes us more confident in a decision we’ve already made
• As you become an expert in a particular field – You learn what not to pay attention, so that you can give more attention to what’s important
• “The secret to learning anything is rehearsing”
  • Break what you’re learning down into sub-skills, and then rehearse each of those individually

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Author, educator, and hedge fund advisor, Adam Robinson returns for part 2 of our fascinating discussion. We talk chess, AI, handicapping horse races, and the secret to learning that nobody is teaching.

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