Emre Soyer

This is the best video explainer on kind vs. wicked learning environments, and learning the wrong lessons from experience. Beautiful illustrations, impressive presentation, superb content. I'm in awe. Thanks @iluli_eu Excellent new year's present :)

The Myth of Experience is now available in Japanese. 経験バイアス：ときに経験は思考決定の敵となる In the book, Robin and I discuss instances where experience can be an unreliable teacher. Happy and grateful that more people will have access to it.

@dikili Hocam başın sağolsun. Çok erken, çok acı. Üzgünüm 😔 Sana ve geride kalanlara sabır, sağlık dilemekten başka elden bir şey gelemiyor...

“Sabah ne güzel bir güne başladım” deyip kahvemi içerken bir anda her şey değişti. Anlık hayat. Kahvemi içip işlere başlarken bir anda bir Whatsapp grubuna eklendim. Grubun adı ortak bir arkadaşımızın ismiyle başlıyor ve cenaze planlaması ibaresi ile bitiyor... Gözlerimden yaşlar boşaldı. Güzel dosttuk. Hint Gazelleri dinler ve hayatın anlamını konuşurduk. Yıllar önce tam bu tip ani ölümünü konuşmuştum onunla. Hatta birkaç kez. “Ne olur ki?” demişti. Ama gençsin ve arkanda kalanlar olacak, dediğimde “bir şey olmaz, hayat devam eder” diye eklemişti. Öyle olacak. 53ünde gitti… Bu dünyadan bir Milind Dawande geçti. Muhteşem iyi bir insan ve inanılmaz bir bilim insanı ve dahiydi. Silinemez izini bırakarak ama maalesef korktuğum gibi erkenden gitti.

@dikili Thank you hocam. Very kind of you.

@emresoyer My condolences, hocam. Robin was an incredible scientist and a very gentle soul. Thank you for making my path cross his even if it was for a brief moment.

Robin had an extraordinary impact on my life. I had the privilege to share many adventures with him. I'm immensely grateful. I’ll miss him dearly, together with a lot of people, whose lives he touched and improved.

Not only has he been a wise mentor and a dear friend, he also helped me meet other colleagues and friends. Here’s a page from Robin Hogarth’s website that lists some of his students and collaborators over many years: econ.upf.edu/~hogarth/Robin…

Both are needed? People also change from one type to the other… Start with a mission, then love the game. Or start with the game, then love a mission.

@GowagsKyle Thank you Kyle. Much appreciated. Hope those questions on learning from experience serve the coaches well.

#5 @emresoyer What’s missing? What’s irrelevant? Emre’s book The Myth of Experience will make you challenge authority in respectful, intelligent ways. #DrawTheRightConclusions

Coaches…while your athletes are lifting, sprinting, studying, hitting, throwing to help the team perform between the lines… Do your part outside the lines. Here are 7 NON SPORTS people that are MUSTS to follow to give your athletes success. #BeLessWrongTomorrow

@FerraroOnAir @GowagsKyle Nice to meet you too Joe. Very kind of you. My favorite puzzle is Airport Parking :) Congrats on your damn good conversations. Impressive. I'm listening to the one with Annie Duke right now.

@GowagsKyle @emresoyer Nice to meet you Emre! I just got lost down your decision making puzzle rabbit trail. So fun. Honored to be on the same list as you from Kyle!

@PolymathToBe @yudapearl Thanks for your comment. Sorry to have missed it until. now... Discussions on inference typically center on analysis. We tried to add to that discussion by considering the effects of presentation: sloanreview.mit.edu/article/using-…

@emresoyer Reading the Myth of Experience with great interest. When you referred to the two questions that are to be answered when in wicked learning on page 11, I immediately thought of the casual inference work from @yudapearl. Have you delved further into it, WRT your work?

@PolymathToBe @DavidEpstein @armenikus Thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts. Much appreciated!

@DavidEpstein @emresoyer @armenikus polymathtobe.blogspot.com/2023/05/book-r…

We just published a piece on @HarvardBiz about how decision makers can unexpectedly learn the wrong lessons from failures. Based on our book The Myth of Experience.

An extra-short newsletter — just a single insight from an eminent psychologist, a few months before he passed away at 45. "Happiness is a 2x2 matrix" davidepstein.substack.com/p/happiness-is…

@koenfucius @DavidEpstein @AnnieDuke Dangerous indeed… thanks for sharing.

“People get reliably better with experience in certain tasks, while in others they don’t get better and yet become more confident. A dangerous combination.” @DavidEpstein talks to @emresoyer and Robin Hogarth on how to learn from experience: buff.ly/3kWCirU HT @AnnieDuke

@Cerenz @DavidEpstein Thanks for sharing. Very kind of you...

Good one today from @DavidEpstein in conversation with Emre Soyer & Robin Hogarth about the VASTLY underappreciated book 'The Myth of Experience.' open.substack.com/pub/davidepste…

Thank you for the deeper dive @DavidEpstein Hope the readers enjoy it.

Chapter 19 is a must 😃🤔 #FooledbyExperience

@koenfucius Thanks for sharing. In many games, it's relatively easy to identify these and learn to better deal with them. In life & business, things get complicated :)

Good decision making also includes deciding which decisions in a process are the most critical ones—those that have the most impact on the outcome, argue @emresoyer & Robin Hogarth: buff.ly/3D4G6xl

@dikili Sağ ol hocam. Bildiğin gibi. Hepimizden hepinize mutlu sağlıklı 2023. Yolunuz da açık ola.

@emresoyer Sağ olasın, Emre hocam 🙏 Keyifler nasıl? Sevgiler selamlar.

Kul kurar kader gülermiş… İlk pozitif Covid testim bugüneymiş. Lakin durumum fena değil. Hatta test öncesi sabah Mountain Biking yaptım arkadaşla. Ama parti planları ve arkadaşları görme iptal tabii. Kısmet değilmiş.

@dggoldst Interesting! I missed this but would actually have chosen subtraction. But maybe the "minus" sign has an unfavorable connotation in people's minds?

Wow. I predicted (you'll have to take my word) that multiplication would win and that it and addition would be favored. We think highly 😉 of words associated with increases. But I did not expect subtraction to get walloped like that relative to division. Why did that happen?