Garrett Hardin on the Three Filters Needed to Think About Problems ( LINK ) Related book:  Filters Against Folly What are Charlie Munger’...

A few related quotes... From Garrett Hardin in Filters Against Folly  (a book Peter Bevelin mentioned as one of the two things he re-reads...

“The greatest folly is to accept expert statements uncritically. At the very least, we should always seek another opinion. Moreover, to the...

From Living within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos : For all but the last few hundred years of human history the domin...

This quote can probably apply to the economic world as well. "The natural world is organized into a web of life more complex than ...

Below is an interesting excerpt from Garrett Hardin’s book Filters Against Folly . The important things to keep in mind are: 1) this book w...

“You don’t have to be an expert to have a healthy respect for human nature. In fact, laymen often are better at evaluating reliability than...