RANT: Surprised? Not me!

Thursday, September 19, 2013

FROM WSJ!

 

Pricing Glitch Afflicts Rollout of Online Health Exchanges
Government software can’t reliably determine how much people need to pay for coverage, as the launch of health-insurance exchanges nears.

If not resolved by the Oct. 1 launch date, the problems could affect consumers in 36 states where the federal government is running all or part of the exchanges. About 32 million uninsured people live in those states, but only a fraction of them are expected to sign up in the next year.

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INTERESTING: Mistakes?

Thursday, September 19, 2013

http://99u.com/workbook/18843/become-a-connoisseur-of-your-own-mistakes

Become a Connoisseur of Your Own Mistakes

“The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them – especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.” — Daniel Dennet via Dan Shipper

by Sean Blanda on Sep 17, 2013 – 7:00am

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I found this interesting because I just finished telling a bunch of smart college kids that there was really no such thing as a “mistake”.

In life, we make “choices” that either work out well or badly. 

That doesn’t make a choice — right or wrong.

And, life doesn’t have a rewind button so you can’t do it over again and see how it works out the next time.

Watch the poker shows on the boob tube. The players figure the odds and make decisions. Some work out; some don’t. Just like “life”.

Humans have to make decisions based on limited information without a real understanding of the probabilities of the outcomes.

Am I crazy?

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