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I found the writeup valuable in terms of provoking deeper thought and discussion.

However, I think perhaps the author is mixing up 'both wits' (logical vs emotional thinking) with the two systems thinking from the TFaS book(intuitive vs logical thinking), at least in the writeup.

I am more inclined to believe that intuition and logic based thought processes are superior to one that has an emotional dimension, at least for running a business.

As an example, I think if in the Cheezburger case the author was less emotional, he would have responded rather than reacted to the perceived threat- which is arguably a better way to deal with the situation.

Lack of affect(especially fear) is a defining quality of psychopathy, which happens to be very common amongst CEOs [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy_in_the_workplace#C...



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