We designed the school system under a set of assumptions (academic skills must be taught; social ones can be easily self-learned) that only fit part of the student population; the rest is left behind. (an excerpt from next week's newsletter issue)

It must be said

Too many people believe that bullying antifragilizes kids. But that's true only if the amount is moderate and "hits" them in the green area (pic below). If it's higher than that and "hits" them in the red area, it has long-term fragilizing effects.

A self-correcting democracy would have launched a major incident investigation + corrective actions during the second legislature in which this happened. Because it's obvious that re-electing such a congressman is a bug. Sadly, Italy is not a self-correcting democracy.

Skills are trained better through supervisor-led coaching, rather than group training sessions (which transfer information, not skills or behaviors). Luca-dellanna.com/posts/team-...

Learnings from the fertility crisis that extend to how we use money, time, and productivity. Luca-dellanna.com/posts/wealt...

"As a general principle, more context helps until the goldfish’s working memory is full. Beyond that point, additional context often becomes counterproductive." Luca-dellanna.com/posts/goldf...

New blog post: luca-dellanna.com/posts/llm-t...

Why do we dream? And why do we often make weird decisions? luca-dellanna.com/posts/anthr...

Moral Dilemmas: A thought experiment reveals the gap between the most moral individual choice and the most moral advice to give. My latest essay ↓ luca-dellanna.com/posts/moral...

What makes human specials? My latest essay ↓ luca-dellanna.com/posts/what-...

For my Indian readers 🇮🇳: Amazon is running a Kindle Daily Deal on my bestselling book "Ergodicity: How irreversible outcomes affect long-term performance in work, investing, relationships, sport, and beyond (3rd edition)." Just for today.

The Importance of Early Check-Ins After delegating a task, a brief check-in 1-2 days later prevents wasted effort by surfacing questions employees didn't yet know they had. My latest blog post: luca-dellanna.com/posts/early...

Habits need competence: awkward, confusing behaviors rarely become automatic My latest post ↓ luca-dellanna.com/posts/habit...

Toyota achieved great quality not (just) with incentives, but mostly by creating the habits that ensure high quality. In general, incentives are not sufficient to change behavior, and a focus on habits is necessary, too. My latest essay: ↓ luca-dellanna.com/posts/how-g...

As today is World Autism Awareness Day, a reminder that I published a book on autism

Bonuses can buy more of a behavior, but rarely create it. My latest essay luca-dellanna.com/posts/bonus...

Price discrimination is not bad in itself. It is bad when too little of the surplus from high payers is reinvested into a better product or lower prices for low payers. And what determines this is competition. Now, let's apply that to the algorithmic pricing we call taxes.

My five favorite quotes from Ben Horowitz's "What You Do Is Who You Are" 5/5

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My five favorite quotes from Ben Horowitz's "What You Do Is Who You Are" 3/5

My five favorite quotes from Ben Horowitz's "What You Do Is Who You Are" 2/5

My five favorite quotes from Ben Horowitz's "What You Do Is Who You Are" 1/5

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Good risk management reduces customer acquisition costs. How much of your marketing budget compensates for a product that isn't good enough? For ineffective advertising? For frustrated customers? Many of these costs are preventable with good pre-mortems.

Italians are going to vote on a referendum later this month, and this will be the full text printed on the voting sheet, followed by a “Yes” or “No.” No context, no explanation. Is this truly democracy?

Five simple methods to get the most out of Claude and ChatGPT. Including: - The Success Criteria Loop - The "Tidy" and "Reflect" skills - How to think higher level and longer term luca-dellanna.com/posts/6-tec...

Leaders who think organizational culture is a set of concepts attempt to change it using words and concepts, and inevitably fail. Because organizational culture is not a set of concepts, it's a track record. ♻️ 1/8

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Heads, you win; tails, taxpayers lose. The Italian government will guarantee failed equity investments up to 50% of the invested value (in the cases described below). Absolute folly.