that there is just web programming, and maybe there's some other stuff, yeah, like game programming, but you'd be like, game programming in JavaScript and on the web. There's this very myopic view of the programming world, and I bet if you ask a lot of people these days what is the most popular form of programming, they'd probably say web.
And that's part of the problem that we have in our health care system now. They're myopic , and just looking at the symptom. Why'd you write the book?
The whole point is, my mind gets clouded. Everything's myopic . I get focused on the here and now and this. Right now, last week, I've been in a little bit of a funk.
And the only way that can happen is if she was using a very high discount rate. If kids can be myopic and over-weigh instant gratification and under-weigh delayed gratification, why not Mr. Market? Indeed, Buffett offers clues as to how he thinks about discount rates for valuing a business.
It's not just about airfare. So many people are myopically focused on, let me just get airline miles for the free-- but hotels and other experiences, you should really diversify your miles and points.
And it's more joyful to do it that way. And if you myopically focus only on the shareholder, the magic is lost and very often the employees are unhappy and the customers are unhappy and the shareholder's going to be unhappy too.
to the recitation of a single mantra. It's that all cultures are myopic , faithful to their own interpretation of reality.
Mastery is a second urge. Mastery is our desire to get better at something, particularly better at something that matters. It is a fundamental human impulse. The other thing is that people become myopic in the sense that they don't see the long-term consequences of it. And they don't care, even if it's against
Mastery is a second urge. Mastery is our desire to get better at something, particularly better at something that matters. It is a fundamental human impulse. So it forces us to be myopic , and it also gets us to be very -- it narrows the breadth of our thinking as well. So you actually become in some ways less creative.
Let's just arbitrarily say that Gwen had cake every single day. This is not a blanket statement myopically looking at intermittent fasting.
Slaves are going to revolt everywhere. in this very narrow, myopic way, where we are so committed to the idea of American exceptionalism that we inevitably suppress anything that
More information-- you guys know this better than I do how hungry people are all the time for more and more information. And yet, we are myopic , right? I mean, there is only so much we can see, right?
Overconfidence and myopia. Yeah. Easy to be overconfident, easy to be myopic , have tunnel vision, and both go hand in hand. And there,
And that's the only reason why I named it that it's a nod to my mom and my grandmother. But I think when that becomes the only thing that you want and you're myopic about it, that's when it becomes, I think, a problem.
to the recitation of a single mantra. Right? And we too are culturally myopic and we forget that we're a product of our history.
OK, again, what's this got to do with anything? is the fact that it forces us to get out of our myopic picture of ourselves, just like art, music, and literature--
And with the National Park too, people that feel that they handled this very badly, they're nervous about anything that they do. You know, you can get a little myopic about the whole thing, but when you step back and look at the bigger
you know that you always have agency, you are not limited by others who have limited myopic mindsets, and we'll do everything
Earwax, one of its locations used to be inside of Myopic .
I was more upset because this one, unflinching, myopic definition of success, that the fastest and most expedient path to the corner office
We live in a four-dimensional universe, not a three-dimensional universe. And those kind of developments have progressively told us that the universe that we see is kind of myopic because we perceive these three-dimensional slices of a four-dimensional universe, which is why seem so non-intuitive to us that the universe is four-dimensional.
Well said. Talk a little bit more about the issue with the current medical system. Yeah. As I referred to, it's very myopic . We don't live in a health care system, we live in a sick care system.
I think, right now, they're still one of the only spots from back in the day that's still there, is a great used bookstore, called Myopic Books,
And then expand that, so that it wasn't just about food writing, which I think can be a little bit myopic in a sense,
For me, as an educator, I'm really interested in this idea of revisionist history and pushing back against this myopic view of what our country is, what
And even those who get it tend to get it logically but not viscerally, so we're navigating myopically.
We suggest the two culprits are overconfidence and myopia. Overconfidence and myopia. Yeah. Easy to be overconfident, easy to be myopic , have tunnel vision, and both go hand in hand.