The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

The conventional wisdom is often wrong.

As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.

If you own a gun and have a swimming pool in the yard, the swimming pool is almost 100 times more likely to kill a child than the gun is.

And knowing what happens on average is a good place to start. By so doing, we insulate ourselves from the tendency to build our thinking - our daily decisions, our laws, our governance - on exceptions and anomalies rather than on reality

No matter how expert you may be, well-designed checklists can improve outcomes.