David Epstein - The Bajillion Dollar Question

The Wardroom Podcast

18-05-2021 • 49 mins

We are joined by David Epstein, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller: Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, for a discussion on:

"Wicked" vs "Kind" learning environments, analogical problem solving, differentiating the "Chain of Communication" from the "Chain of Command", and the "bajillion dollar question".

Links to other media discussed in this episode:

David Epstein and Malcolm Gladwell discuss Generalized vs Specialized at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference

'Superforecasters' Are Making Eerily Accurate Predictions About COVID-19. Our Leaders Could Learn From Their Approach

Book Recommendations:

Expert Political Judgment (Philip E. Tetlock),

And its more popular treatment:

Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Dan Gardner and Philip E. Tetlock)

Educating Intuition (Robin M. Hogarth),

And its more popular treatment:

The Myth of Experience: Why We Learn the Wrong Lessons, and Ways to Correct Them (Emre Soyer and Robin M. Hogarth)

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