Thinking About Thinking

Chris McNamara

As our first repeat guest, we brought Chris back to have a conversation about thinking. Specifically, we wanted to cover several logical fallacies that often disrupt well intentioned planning and evaluation. Chris is a seasoned special operations veteran and emergency medical professional with numerous combat deployments, an accomplished coach, and an impressive athlete in his own right. We highly recommend that you listen to Chris' previous episode about assessments before diving into this one. We can't promise that knowing about these will make you immune to them - we're all guilty of these - but they will give you the tools to better assess your own thinking.

Topics we covered:

What is "MOPs & MOEs" all about?

Goodhart's Law

McNamara Fallacy

Survivorship Bias

Path Dependency

Bonus Topic: Dunning-Kruger Effect