Michael Mauboussin
Person on 4 sites
Head of Consilient Research at Counterpoint Global, Morgan Stanley Investment Management; adjunct professor of finance at Columbia Business School; author of…
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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8 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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People tend to think they understand the future better than they actually do (opens korrents.com)
“The first is overconfidence. We tend to think we understand the future better than we actually do.”
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Confirmation bias, seeking confirming information and dismissing the rest, is an even harder bias to circumvent (opens korrents.com)
“And the second one I think is even more difficult, which is confirmation bias. Which is once we’ve made up our minds about something, we tend to seek information that confirms our point of view, and dismiss, discount,…”
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A true expert has a predictive model that works, and experts are under pressure from two directions (opens korrents.com)
“Whereas, really, a true expert has a predictive model that works. I’m increasingly skeptical about experts and I think the pressure on experts is coming from two different directions.”
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People tend to think they understand the future better than they actually do (opens korrents.com)
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11 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Creating Shareholder Value (opens rcmnd.app)
“Guy in my training program gave me a copy of Al Rappaport's book called Creating Shareholder Value, which was published in 1986. So this is probably a year and a half or two years after that book was out. And he gave…”
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Consilience (opens rcmnd.app)
“So, I was very taken in the late 1990s by a book called Consilience by E.O. Wilson.”
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The Wisdom of Crowds (opens rcmnd.app)
“The third way to think about things as complex adaptive systems, and I think the way that's easiest to understand this, is using some of the language from Jim Surowiecki's great book The Wisdom of Crowds, which came…”
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Creating Shareholder Value (opens rcmnd.app)