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by Steven Johnson


  and maps and models, 29, 31, 49–51

  predictions and, 12, 29, 31, 118, 225n

  risk and, 137, 139–40

  Denning, Kathryn, 160

  Dickens, Charles, 4, 90, 187, 233n

  diversity, 23, 66, 68, 119, 143, 215

  groups and, 28, 50–54, 61, 152–53, 161

  and maps and models, 44, 49, 51

  Vancouver and, 49, 52–53

  Drake, Frank, 158, 172–74

  Duer, William, 2

  Dunning-Kruger effect, 56

  economics, 23, 25, 31, 33, 43, 134, 150, 159, 172, 184

  Collect Pond and, 45–46

  in decision-making, 7, 13, 15, 26–27

  Dorothea’s choice and, 188, 190–94, 199

  predictions and, 82–85, 88

  regulatory impact analysis and, 130, 132–33

  education, 184, 201, 213–16

  brain and, 206, 214–15

  on decision-making, 13, 214–16

  predictions and, 115–16

  Einstein, Albert, 164–65, 171

  Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans), 29–31, 34–35, 77, 123, 187–203, 208–10, 231n, 233n

  choice of, 195–201, 205–6

  diary of, 177–78

  Lewes’s relationship with, 90, 196–99, 201, 205–6

  morality and, 206, 208–9

  and what novels teach, 209–10

  see also Middlemarch

  emotions, 9, 15, 27, 165, 231n

  brain and, 13, 80, 206, 210–11

  Dorothea’s choice and, 188, 191, 194, 199–200

  Eliot’s choice and, 196, 199, 205–6

  happiness and, 128–29

  LVM and, 135

  predictions and, 122

  Revolutionary War and, 43

  empathy, 207–9, 214

  environment, 13, 38, 55, 152, 227n

  computers and, 150, 166, 170

  destruction in, 154–55

  garden tools and, 111, 113

  groups and, 52

  and Johnson’s move to California, 183, 207

  and maps and models, 44, 48–49

  Meadow Lake and, 46–47

  predictions and, 26, 84, 113–14

  regulatory impact analysis and, 131

  Revolutionary War and, 36

  in Tale of the Fire Commander, 57

  Vancouver and, 48, 60

  Victorian medicine and, 92

  see also climate change

  environmental impact analysis, 7, 44, 55

  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 46–47, 131–32

  epistemological decisions, 20–21

  eschatological decisions, 168

  ethics, 15, 37, 215, 226n

  Europe, 23, 82, 113, 161, 213

  Evans, Mary Ann, see Eliot, George

  evolution, 12, 82, 91, 98, 164, 173–75, 179–81, 203, 210–11

  Ex Machina, 166, 169

  expectations, 57, 109

  Dorothea’s choice and, 192, 201

  predictions and, 106, 116

  Expert Political Judgment (Tetlock), 83

  experts, 13, 52–55, 91, 95, 131, 143, 155, 162, 172

  and maps and models, 119, 122

  predictions and, 82–85, 89

  extremism, 72–73

  fallacy of extrapolation, 87, 114, 119

  false information, time spent on, 203–4

  Feuerbach, George, 231n

  Feynman, Richard, 62

  fingerprints, 32–34, 65, 125–26, 206–7

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 81

  FitzRoy, Robert, 96–98

  Fleet Problem XIII, 108–9, 120

  fMRI scans, 77–78, 80, 92, 94, 216

  Fort Bragg, N.C., 105, 124

  France, 3, 49–50, 108, 197

  Franklin, Benjamin, 10–12, 127, 133, 135, 186

  Franzen, Jonathan, 188

  Freshwater Pond, see Collect Pond

  Freud, Sigmund, 93–94

  Fuller, Buckminster, 110

  full spectrum, 24–27, 75, 172, 201, 211

  bin Laden and, 74, 125, 144–45

  computers and, 151, 175

  Dorothea’s choice and, 191, 193–94

  and education on decision-making, 215

  expert roles and, 55

  LVM and, 135

  and maps and models, 29, 43–44, 47–49, 52, 153

  Middlemarch and, 187–88, 191, 193–94, 210

  predictions and, 82, 85, 115

  Revolutionary War and, 37

  Fundamental Tools, 111–12

  Gage, Phineas, 77

  Galton, Francis, 98

  garden tools, 111–15

  Garland, Alex, 166

  Gates, Robert, 124, 145

  Germany, 107–8, 197

  germ theory, 93

  Gladwell, Malcolm, 13, 56, 58–59

  global warming, see climate change

  Google, 86

  autonomous vehicles and, 136–37, 139, 142, 161

  Greeks, 84–85, 156

  Greene, Nathanael, 37–38, 41, 43, 59–61, 68, 110

  groups, group decisions, 7, 15–16, 67, 127, 169, 216

  bin Laden and, 64, 66, 74–75, 145–46

  crime investigation study and, 56

  deliberations and, 51, 53–55, 186

  diversity and, 28, 50–54, 61, 152–53, 161

  and education on decision-making, 215

  expert roles in, 54–55

  global decision-making and, 161–62

  and maps and models, 29, 50–52

  phases in, 21–22

  predictions and, 29, 56, 83, 104

  Vancouver and, 49, 55

  vulnerable to failure, 28–29

  war games and, 107

  groupthink, 24, 28, 228n

  Gully, James Manby, 90–91, 94, 178, 229n

  gut decisions, gut impressions, 13, 15, 58

  Hammond, Robert, 69–70, 72

  happiness, 9–10, 23, 127–30, 136, 166, 178

  Dorothea’s choice and, 200, 209

  and Johnson’s move to California, 207, 216

  Hawken, Paul, 111–14

  Hawking, Stephen, 158, 164–65, 175

  Heath, Dan and Chip, 67–68, 71

  Heights of Gowan, 35–36, 39, 68

  Heinlein, Robert A., 87

  Henry, Joseph, 229n

  hidden profiles, 52, 54–56, 74, 215

  High Line, 70–73

  Hill, Austin Bradford, 92–93, 103–4

  housing, 141, 207

  Collect Pond and, 4–5, 7, 26, 45–46, 154

  predictions and, 115–16

  Howe, William, 36, 38–39, 41, 43, 60

  Hussein, Saddam, 21, 62, 144

  immortality, 159, 161, 163

  impact pathways, 104, 163, 180, 202

  Collect Pond and, 44, 46, 154

  influence diagrams, 44–46

  instincts, 15, 33, 65, 81

  bin Laden and, 144–45, 147

  brain and, 206

  housing and, 115–16

  mulling and, 143

  intelligence, 16–17, 28, 41, 86, 191

  alien, 157–60, 163, 171–75, 232n–33n

  artificial (AI), 157, 163–72

  diversity and, 53, 153

  predictions and, 81, 83, 88–89, 123

  Internet, 19, 162

  Interstate Commerce Commission, 69

  intuition, 11, 13–17, 44, 68, 92

  crime investigation study and, 56

  scenario planning and, 142

  in Tale of the Fire Commander, 56, 58

 
; Iran, U.S. hostages in, 21, 74, 106, 146

  Iraq, Iraq War, 59, 63

  scenario planning and, 116–17

  WMD and, 21, 62–63, 120, 144, 146

  Jamaica Pass, 36, 39–41, 46, 68, 110

  Jane Eyre (Brontë), 195

  Janis, Irving, 227n–28n

  Japan, 109, 168, 227n–28n

  juries, 15–16, 26, 42, 53–54, 181, 186, 216, 225n

  Kahn, Herman, 107

  Kahneman, Daniel, 13–14, 50–51

  Keats, Jonathon, 108

  Kelly, Kevin, 169

  Kennedy, John F., 21, 110

  Kennedy, Robert, 110

  Kimmel, Husband, 228n

  Klein, Gary, 118–19

  and Tale of the Fire Commander, 56–59

  Kubrick, Stanley, 107

  Lancet, The, 94–95, 99

  leaders, leadership, 16, 58, 72, 141

  bin Laden and, 20, 117, 121, 125, 145, 147

  climate change and, 156

  predictions and, 116, 121

  war games and, 110

  Lee, Charles, 36–38

  Leiter, Mike, 120

  L’Enfant, Pierre Charles, 3, 5–6

  Lewes, George Henry, 90, 196–99, 201, 205–6

  Lind, James, 94

  linear value modeling (LVM), 133–37, 143, 202, 232n

  Darwin and, 133–35, 141

  risk and, 139–40

  “Logic Named Joe, A” (Leinster), 86

  Long Island, N.Y., 3, 35–36

  Revolutionary War and, 36, 38–39, 41, 43, 60

  loss aversion, 28, 40

  Lost Illusions (Balzac), 188

  McDonough, Denis, 64

  McRaven, William, 105–6, 121, 124, 140, 145–47

  Malvern, 90–91, 178, 229n

  Manhattan, N.Y., 1–2, 46, 68–71, 208

  Collect Pond and, 2, 4–7, 24, 45, 150, 154

  High Line and, 70–71

  LVM and, 136

  Revolutionary War and, 36, 38–40, 43, 66, 68

  maps and models, 42–44, 127, 142–47, 149, 153–54, 171, 202, 206–10, 226n

  and bin Laden, 42, 74–75, 105, 125–26, 144–47

  and brain, 42–43, 206–8

  and certainty, 60–61, 65, 227n

  and climate change, 151, 163

  in complex decision-making, 66, 71

  and computers, 42–43, 151, 163

  and deliberation, 29, 31, 49–51

  and Dorothea’s choice, 188–89, 193–94

  and education on decision-making, 215

  and expertise, 119, 122

  full–spectrum, 29, 43–44, 47–49, 52, 153

  and happiness, 129

  and Johnson’s move to California, 185, 207

  and Middlemarch, 187–89, 193–94

  and predictions, 75, 93, 98–100, 103, 105, 113, 118–19, 122, 125–26

  and regulatory impact analysis, 130

  and Revolutionary War, 42–43, 60–61, 68

  and scenario planning, 113, 118–19

  and time spent on false information, 203–4

  and Vancouver, 48–49

  and war games, 107, 109–10

  of whether or not questions, 67

  see also linear value modeling

  marriage:

  Darwin and, 8–11, 15, 25, 29, 31, 71, 90, 104, 133–36, 139, 141, 178–81, 184

  Dorothea’s choice and, 186, 188–90, 193, 199, 204, 209

  Eliot’s choice and, 196–97, 201

  and Johnson’s move to California, 182, 184–86, 207, 216

  LVM and, 133–36, 141

  Marx, Karl, 180

  Mead, Rebecca, 209

  Meadow Lake, 46–48, 154–55

  Meaning of It All, The (Feynman), 62

  medicine, 118

  predictions and, 90–95, 99, 101–4

  in Victorian era, 90–92, 94, 144, 177–78, 229n

  Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence (METI), 157–60, 163, 171

  Middlemarch (Eliot), 34–35, 77, 177, 186–96, 199–202, 231n

  Casaubon’s will in, 189–90, 199, 201, 204

  Dorothea’s choice in, 186, 188–95, 199–201, 204, 209

  Eliot’s choice and, 195–96, 201

  full spectrum and, 187–88, 191, 193–94, 210

  love affairs in, 189–95, 200, 204

  Lydgate and, 29–31, 123, 188, 193–94, 201, 233n–34n

  and maps and models, 187–89, 193–94

  military:

  bin Laden and, 18–19, 73–74, 104–6, 116–17, 120–21, 124–25, 140–41, 145–47

  complex decisions and, 32–33

  deliberation and, 15–17

  Pearl Harbor attack and, 109, 227n–28n

  predictions and, 104–10, 116–17, 119–20, 124–25, 230n

  red-teaming and, 120–21

  Revolutionary War and, 35–43, 59–61, 68

  war games and, 107–10, 149, 230n

  Mill, John Stuart, 129, 136

  Milner, Yuri, 157

  mind, theory of, 206, 208

  minimally viable product idea, 141

  models, see also maps and models

  Moore’s Law, 163

  moral algebra, 11, 127, 135, 186

  morality, 31, 33, 136, 155, 202, 234n

  Dorothea’s choice and, 199

  and education on decision-making, 214–15

  Eliot and, 206, 208–9

  happiness and, 128–29

  risk and, 139

  Morson, Gary Saul, 225n–26n

  Moses, Robert, 47–48

  mulling, 12, 24, 79, 90, 140, 142–44, 180

  Musk, Elon, 157, 164

  narrativeness, 225n–26n

  narrowband, 25–27, 44, 50, 188, 215

  predictions and, 85, 102

  natural selection, 8, 164, 179–80

  Navy, U.S., 108, 149, 227n–28n

  SEALs and, 18, 105–6, 116, 120–21, 124–25, 146

  Newton, Isaac, 226n

  New York, 1–2, 27, 151

  Collect Pond and, 4–7, 48, 133, 164

  Johnson’s departure from, 182–86

  Meadow Lake and, 46–47

  Revolutionary War and, 35–40, 43, 60, 68

  urban parks and, 3, 5–6, 46, 70–73

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 180

  9/11, 19, 72–73, 120

  novels, 32, 187–88, 195, 208–11, 233n

  default networks and, 210–11

  and education on decision-making, 215–16

  realist, 34, 201, 226n

  science fiction, 87, 169–70

  see also Middlemarch

  Nutt, Paul, 66–68, 71

  Obama, Barack, 131, 162

  bin Laden and, 63–64, 66, 73–75, 105–6, 116–17, 124, 143, 145, 147

  predictions and, 105–7, 116–17, 124

  scenario planning and, 116–17

  objectives, 21, 24, 27, 29, 31, 71, 110, 117, 136, 140, 142–44, 151, 166, 232n

  Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), 130–33

  Ogilvy, Jay, 113–14

  oil, 112, 114, 227n

  On the Origin of Species (Darwin), 181

  Open Government, 162

  opportunities, 31, 43, 60, 81, 85, 117, 122, 162, 182, 192, 211

  options, 127, 215, 233n

  bin Laden and, 66, 73–74, 105–6, 124, 126, 145, 147, 226n

  cataloguing real–world decisions and, 66–68

  in decision-making, 14–17, 21–24, 28

  High Line and, 70–71

  and Johnson’s move to California, 185–86

  LVM and,
133–35, 143

  predictions and, 105–6, 114, 124, 126

  regulatory impact analysis and, 131–32

  risk and, 138, 140, 145

  scenario planning and, 114, 142–43

  Orwell, George, 87

  Owen, Robert, 191

  Page, Scott E., 53

  Pakistan:

  bin Laden and, 17–19, 26, 74, 105–6, 116, 118–19, 121, 123–25, 140, 145

  predictions and, 105–6, 116, 118, 121, 123–25

  Panetta, Leon, 20, 22, 63

  Paris climate accord, 151–52, 155–56, 160, 171

  Pearl Harbor attack, 109, 227n–28n

  PET scans, 77–79, 214, 216

  Phillips, Katherine, 55–56

  plans, planning, 13, 32, 72, 149, 154, 214

  bin Laden and, 19, 62–63, 105–6, 146–47, 226n

  climate change and, 167–68

  Collect Pond and, 3, 5–6, 26, 45, 133

  Dorothea’s choice and, 191, 200

  long-term, 165, 168

  and maps and models, 48–50, 226n

  Meadow Lake and, 47

  predictions and, 81, 105–6, 112–26

  Revolutionary War and, 39–40

  risk and, 138–39, 141

  and science of brain, 79–80

  and Tale of the Fire Commander, 58

  Vancouver and, 49, 60

  see also scenario planning

  politics, 10, 16, 26–27, 125–30, 152–54, 157, 161, 180

  bin Laden and, 125–26

  climate change and, 167, 172

  diversity and, 152–53

  Dorothea’s choice and, 188–89, 191, 193–94, 199–200, 209

  Eliot’s choice and, 198–99

  happiness and, 128–30

  and Johnson’s move to California, 185

  and maps and models, 43

  predictions and, 82–84, 87, 89, 103, 117

  pollution, 47, 150, 154, 170

  Collect Pond and, 3, 7

  Victorian medicine and, 91, 229n

  predictions, 56, 75, 77, 81–127, 129, 133, 142–43, 156, 171, 200, 207

  accuracy of, 83, 93, 98, 100–101, 103

  certainty and, 23, 60–61, 84–85, 112, 114–16, 140

  climate change and, 163, 167, 170

  complex decisions and, 24–27, 32, 34

  deliberation and, 12, 29, 31, 118, 225n

  evolution and, 181

  of experts, 82–85, 89

  failures in, 87–89, 114, 118, 228n–29n

  garden tools and, 112–15, 118

  long-term, 81–83, 100, 145, 151

  RCTs and, 92–95, 101–4, 109

  red-teaming and, 120–22, 145

  regulatory impact analysis and, 130, 132

  scenario planning and, 112–26, 140

  simulations and, 100, 102–10, 116, 119–23, 209

  successes in, 84–86, 89, 104, 114–15

  superforecasters and, 85–86, 89

  Tetlock on, 82–86, 89, 102, 114, 205

 

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