Daniel Kahneman: Algorithms Make Better Decisions Than You

Delay your intuition. Don't try to form an intuition quickly, which was what we normally do. Focus on the separate points. And then when you have the whole profile. Then you can have an intuition and it's going to be better.

Welcome to the Knowledge Project. I'm your host, Shane Parrish. In a world where knowledge is power, this podcast is your toolkit for mastering the best of what other people have already figured out. So you can use their insights. In your life. Before we get into the interview, I want to tell you about a moment that didn't make it into the episode.

I first came across Daniel Comman's work in the early two thousands. His impact on me and so many people around the globe has been unbelievable. By the time I sat down with him in his New York City home in twenty nineteen, I had so many questions for him. Conan won a Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2002, yet he never took an economics course. His central message was very simple. If we want to make better decisions, we need help. Danny died last year on March twenty seventh, twenty twenty four. He was ninety.

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