Cognitive limitations can help and hinder

Cognitive limitations can help and hinder. It is easy to imagine situations where it is an advantage to start big. But cognitive limi-tations are not bad per se; they are only good or bad relative to the task at hand.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit

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This is also why you should flatly distrust your intuition about anything exponential or statistical: on growth rates the gut has nothing useful to say, and the honest move is to admit it and do the arithmetic. And here is a counterintuitive gift: more information and more memory are not always better. There was a man whose memory was so perfect he could forget nothing — and he was nearly crippled by it, drowning in detail, unable to see the forest for every single tree. — The Mind in the Cockpit

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