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Only the Big Ideas # 1 — Complexity, Game Theory, Computer Science, Economics

Greg Docter
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

Welcome to Only the Big Ideas #1 — Surfacing big ideas from big disciplines

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4 articles + mental models

Hackernoon — Beginner’s Guide to Game Theory (Michael Karnjanaprakorn)

  • Prisoner’s Dilemma
  • Tragedy of the Commons
  • Nash Equilibrium
  • Bounded Rationality
  • and more..

On Being — A Shift to Humility: Resilience and Expanding the Edge of Change (@andrew_zolli)

  • Complexity
  • Resilience
  • Self-organization

The Happy Philosopher — How Understanding the Marginal Utility of Money Will Make you Happier (TheHappyPhilosopher)

  • Marginal utility
  • Utility
  • Scarcity

New York Times — Learning to Think Like a Computer (Laura Pappano)

  • Abstraction
  • Pipelining
  • Loops

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