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Claude Shannon

Mathematician, father of information theory

“Information is the resolution of uncertainty. Strip away the noise and find the part of the message that actually matters.”
Claude Shannon
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Find the part that carries the signal.

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Signal vs. noise

Most of what reaches you is noise. Clear thinking is finding the few bits that carry the message.

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Finding the Signal

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Psychologist, Nobel laureate

“Beware the confident intuitions of System 1.”

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Co-founder, Apple

“Focus means saying no.”

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Vice Chairman, Berkshire Hathaway

“Assemble a latticework of mental models.”

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Roman emperor, Stoic

“You have power over your mind, not events.”

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Richard Feynman

Physicist, Nobel laureate

“You must not fool yourself.”

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