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Feb 2021
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#102 Sendhil Mullainathan: The Chaos Ins...

Shane Parrish
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Sendhil Mullainathan is the Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the author of Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much. Sendhil reflects on lessons he learned from his father, how creativity is the marrying of ideation and filtration, direct versus associative memory, what we can do t ... Show More
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