Chris Walsh

On a positive note, very little change between resting and full noise 💪

ping @casssunstein.bsky.social @katymilkman.bsky.social @annieduke.com #GaryKlein #Kahneman #Tversky #ChipandDanHeath and many many others

After researching this area for years, reading everything I could and trying to better understand decision making, I decided to write something about it. Thanks to all those who motivated me with their own work.
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Engineering has ideas tested against physical outcomes. In psychology and leadership, ideas are often tested against attention. This creates an incentive to rename or reframe concepts to for attention. A grift. This helps individuals stand out but undermines progress.
*cough-LinkedIn-cough*

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Chat getting it done

If America survives this next 4 years without a severe financial recession, either we have to give it to Trump and his team, or I’m absolutely shocked at how America has ever been in a recession… will be great to watch either way!

I applaud the GRDC for looking into the world of decision making- but feel like this is a missed opportunity. This does nothing to help growers make better decisions, except add more confusion.

I was waiting for that story to go another way…

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Because AI tools are trained on human behaviour, not human values, it means that it learns from the human ‘System 1’ brain or through our ‘wants’. This makes it bad for helping you decide in certain aspects.

Use AI as a ‘thinking partner’ but not a ‘decision maker’

Musk is an engineering genius but socially inept.

I know how much of a fan you are of good and bad graphs @wheatwatcher.bsky.social and @meatwatcher.bsky.social

Can a graph have 3 vertical axis?

Been listening to Freakonomics?

The Weekly Times now quoting the IPA in their articles. The lurch to the right from this paper over the past few years has been notable

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This extraordinary image was reproduced in the school history books of my childhood and I remember how powerful I found it then. The context has changed but the message is just as powerful today

Labour productivity in Australia kept up with the USA pretty much until the last term of the Howard government. Since then it has been a struggle to catch up. Hopefully a focus on productivity by Treasurer Jim Chalmers will see us make up some of the gap. #agsky #econsky

Really interesting. Would you say that this is a function of the Big 7 in tech who have produced huge amounts of digital innovation/output by software engineers? Ratios would be massive!

Only thing would be if they are using a tall line and cotton is less than 50cm high. Might be able to scoot over the top of the plants if irrigated.

Full retention!

I stopped running this year thanks to Christmas lunches but for about the last 10 years I have sat at 5:10 kms whether it’s a 3k run or 10k. I have stopped trying to get faster 🤷🏻‍♂️

Nothing wrong with that run!

Garmin really putting the burn into that workout.

I think that is why we see differences in federal swings versus state swings in election. Like in QLD and WA where they have a Labor state Gov but vote in LNP Federal seats.

alt-tuna?

Surely they were just taking the piss?!

Here cometh the inflation!

What brand? Ezy Trail? You can probably get one from eTime RV online.

I love reading about history but especially the history of the regions during settlement. This newsletter would have to be the best I have seen for a local area (my home). $20 a year and it’s never dull.

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Matt reading the news every morning he wakes up…

Obviously fake list of Labor Party policies The following commitments can be adopted as the Labor Party's 2025 election platform: • Renewable Energy Projects will receive increased taxpayer funding, allowing Union controlled superannuation funds access to infrastructure project investments to counteract falling union membership This process will ensure that the Labor Party's electior campaigns will remain fully funded by the union movement using taxpayer funds./ • The costs of Wind and Solar projects are to be limited to the direct costs of panel and turbine construction. The additional infrastructure of transmission lines and towers is to be excluded from all project costings. Additionally, the costs of removing the toxic waste and the end of the life of the infrastructure are also to be excluded from ongoing capital maintenance costs. • Further taxation measures that may be adopted after the election can include • Inheritance tax 15% (members of parliament excluded) • Removal of negative gearing (members of parliament excluded) • Sugar tax (15%) • Marginal income tax threshold of 49.5% to commence at an annual income of $135,000 (singles) and $150,000 (couples) • Medicare levy increased to 5% for people on incomes above $100.000 Superannuation portfolios with balances more than $500,000 to be taxed at 30% (lump sum withdrawals) and 15% (taken as annuity) • Fuel excise increased to $0.65 per litre

Doing a thing on how disinformation is spreading ahead of the Australian election. If anyone's seen anything related to this particular fake list of election policies, hit me up. As far as I can tell it began circulating on X on 14 July 2024 and was still being shared widely last month.