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Sorina Dumitru

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Published 7 months agoย โ€ขย 1 min read

It's Black Friday on the S&P500

and other statistics

I heard I have to start making these shorter so here goes.

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INTUITION vs. METRICS is a pretty symmetrical confrontation.

Copying models is a good way to start but isn't sustainable.

Feelings are more real than thoughts.

Illogical passions turn out to make a lot of sense when looking back.

Smaller sample sizes love specificities.

Statistics-based decision making versus natural decision making is really a battle between numbers and influence.

When you count people, they also have an unseen quality which makes them more or less compatible with your evolution projections.

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Sorina Dumitru

architect PhD | writer | I reverse engineer experiences

The topics will be mostly about architecture, economics, and some personal development. Free books included. Yeah I was in Forbes but that was a long time ago.

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