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It’s a bizarre first night of the Democratic National Convention, from John Kasich to Bernie Sanders to Michelle Obama – and Joe Biden is, as always, an afterthought.

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Democrats seal the deal with socialist Bernie Sanders in Nevada, Bernie embraces actual communists again, and the underlings fight it out for second place. Check out The Cold War: What We Saw, a new podcast written and presented by Bill Whittle at https://www.dailywire.com/coldwar. In Part 1 we peel back the layers of mystery cloaking the Terror state run by the Kremlin, and watch as America takes its first small steps onto the stage of world leadership. If you like The Ben Shapiro Show, become a member TODAY with promo code: SHAPIRO and enjoy the exclusive benefits for 10% off at https://www.dailywire.com/Shapiro

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ISIS terrorists murder 13 American servicemembers and kill nearly 100 other people; the Biden administration reportedly handed a list of Americans, green card holders, and Afghan allies to the Taliban; and Joe Biden is not with us.

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Impeachment lawyers take questions from Republicans and Democrats, Alan Dershowitz finds himself under fire after explaining the nature of impeachable activity, and Republicans mull more witnesses. If you like The Ben Shapiro Show, become a member TODAY with promo code: SHAPIRO and enjoy the exclusive benefits for 10% off at dailywire.com/Shapiro

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Facebook removes two separate ads for violating the scruples of fake fact-checkers at Politifact; Biden pushes anti-vaccine propaganda as Trump fights with his CDC director; and Kamala Harris pushed a bail fund that bailed out some rather unsavory characters.

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Can Biden’s daily regimen of Gatorade, PB&J’s, and Flintstone Vitamins really keep him in the tip top cognitive shape we’ve come to expect? Is there a certain number of rockets fired by Hamas at Israeli civilians that would convince the Left they’re on the “wrong side of history?” Because clearly, 3500 isn’t it. And when the UFOs playing peek-a-boo with our military do finally land, will John Cena apologize to our alien overlords for Hollywood’s shame that is The Last Jedi, Battlefield Earth, and Howard The Duck? Let’s hope he does the right thing. 

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Joe Biden delivers the most divisive, demagogic speech in modern American history, demonizing half the country as opposed to democracy, liberty, and decency – while insisting that he was there to restore unity.

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Facebook comes under fire from the Democrat-media complex; Joe Biden thinks about minting a $1 trillion coin to avoid the debt ceiling; and Healthline announces men can get pregnant.

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The stock market continues its slide as Joe Biden’s team touts his economic prowess; Kamala Harris says we need diversity in space; and American helicopters are reportedly evacuating our embassy in yet another country.

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Annie Duke is a former professional poker player, a decision-making expert, and a special partner at First Round Capital. She is the author of Thinking in Bets (a national bestseller) and Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away and the co-founder of the Alliance for Decision Education, a nonprofit whose mission is to improve lives by empowering students through decision skills education. In our conversation, we cover:

• What Annie learned from the late Daniel Kahneman

• The power of pre-mortems and “kill criteria”

• The relationship between money and happiness

• The power of “mental time travel”

• The nominal group technique for better decision quality

• How First Round Capital improved their decision-making process

• Many tactical decision-making frameworks

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Where to find Annie Duke:

• X: https://twitter.com/AnnieDuke

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annie-duke/

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• Substack: https://www.annieduke.com/substack/

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In this episode, we cover:

(00:00) Annie’s background

(03:53) Lessons from Daniel Kahneman: humility, curiosity, and open-mindedness

(09:15) The importance of unconditional love in parenting

(15:15) Mental time travel and “nevertheless”

(20:06) The extent of improvement possible in decision-making 

(24:54) Independent brainstorming for better decisions

(35:36) Making sure people feel heard

(42:41) The “3Ds” framework to make better decisions

(44:49) Decision quality

(55:46) Improving decision-making at First Round Capital

(01:05:05) Using pre-mortems and kill criteria

(01:10:15) Making explicit what’s implicit

(01:10:55) The challenges of quitting and knowing when to walk away

(01:19:23) Where to find Annie

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Referenced:

• Daniel Kahneman, Who Plumbed the Psychology of Economics, Dies at 90: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/daniel-kahneman-dead.html

• Adversarial collaboration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_collaboration

• Does more money correlate with greater happiness?: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/does-more-money-correlate-greater-happiness-Penn-Princeton-research#

• Income and emotional well-being: A conflict resolved: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36857342/

• Strategic decisions: When can you trust your gut?: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/strategic-decisions-when-can-you-trust-your-gut

• Cass Sunstein on X: https://twitter.com/CassSunstein

• Dr. Becky on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drbeckyatgoodinside

• A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital): https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/a-framework-for-finding-product-market

• First Round Capital: https://firstround.com/

• Brett Berson on X: https://twitter.com/brettberson

• Renegade Partners: https://www.renegadepartners.com/

• Renata Quintini on X: https://twitter.com/rquintini

• Roseanne Wincek on X: https://twitter.com/imthemusic

• Josh Kopelman on X: https://twitter.com/joshk

• Bill Trenchard on X: https://twitter.com/btrenchard

• Linnea Gandhi on X: https://twitter.com/linneagandhi

• Maurice Schweitzer on X: https://twitter.com/me_schweitzer

• Problems with premortems: https://sjdm.org/presentations/2021-Poster-Gandhi-Linnea-debiasing-premortem-selfserving~.pdf

• Create a Solid Plan on How to Fail Big This Year: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesfinancecouncil/2020/02/07/create-a-solid-plan-on-how-to-fail-big-this-year/

• Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away: https://www.amazon.com/Quit-Power-Knowing-When-Walk/dp/0593422996/

• Richard Thaler on X: https://twitter.com/R_Thaler

• Stewart Butterfield on X: https://twitter.com/stewart

• Glitch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(video_game)

• How the Founder of Slack & Flickr Turned Colossal Failures into Billion-Dollar Companies: https://medium.com/swlh/how-the-founder-of-slack-flickr-turned-failures-into-million-and-billion-dollar-companies-7bcaf0d35d66

• The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup: https://www.wired.com/2014/08/the-most-fascinating-profile-youll-ever-read-about-a-guy-and-his-boring-startup/

• The Alliance for Decision Education: https://alliancefordecisioneducation.org/

• Make Better Decisions course on Maven: https://maven.com/annie-duke/make-better-decisions

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President Biden says he has no regrets about the Afghanistan collapse and his botched strategy; and our military leaders say we have no capacity to rescue Americans in Afghanistan.

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Enjoy this pre-recorded short series of The Ben Shapiro Show on inflation. We'll be back with our regularly scheduled programming next week!

As inflation rages on, we explore just why Democrats have embraced the precise positions that threw gasoline on the fire in the first place.

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Democrats freak out about illegal immigrants being sent by Republican governors to Martha’s Vineyard and other blue cities; Janet Yellen praises the IRS; and Joe Biden calls for unity five minutes after labeling half of Americans threats to the republic.

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Disney announces it won’t move forward with a proposed $1 billion development deal in Orlando, supposedly in retaliation against Governor Ron DeSantis – but that isn’t the real story; the US military prepares for Pride Month; and Wired magazine goes orgasmic over Pete Buttigieg.

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A grand jury declines to indict police officers in the death of black man Daniel Prude; the first black “Bachelor” complains about systemic racism; and Democrats struggle with Joe Biden putting kids in cages.

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In the latest installment from their trip to Phoenix, “Marketplace” host Kai Ryssdal and Washington Post columnist Heather Long visit Native Resources — a plant relocation, nursery and landscape company — that sits at the intersection of conservation and development amid a semiconductor boom. Plus, takeaways from the Federal Reserve’s policy-setting meeting, a check-in with business owners about wages and an update on a Mississippi barge business.

A week ago, we hit 2M subs on YouTube and 10M podcast downloads, and I promised a special Q&A episode of the pod—which turned out to be more fun than I expected.

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