Cerebral

In this episode, Bhaskar talks about the problem of Silent Evidence, a term coined by the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book Black Swan. We'll be learning the silent evidence fallacy by listening to examples related to forecasters, gamblers etc.

In this episode, Bhaskar talks about a mental model called Alternative Histories, a term coined by the author Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his book Fooled By Randomness. We'll also look at the case of Google and Indian Independence and the alternative histories in these.

In this episode, Bhaskar Thakur discusses why getting offended is a choice and how we could selectively choose to ignore things that offend us. He discusses how being surrounded by agreeable people and our group identities increase our chances of getting offended.