Week 35 Day 7: The Bias Audit: Checking Your Mental Software for Bugs

This week's biases -- confirmation, backfire, survivorship, narrative, overconfidence, hindsight -- form a web of cognitive distortion that makes bad investments feel right and good investments feel b...

This week's biases -- confirmation, backfire, survivorship, narrative, overconfidence, hindsight -- form a web of cognitive distortion that makes bad investments feel right and good investments feel boring. The only reliable defense is to know the bugs in your mental software and build systems that bypass them.