Decisions, Decisions, Decisions

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On The Gist, the demise of the Weekly Standard. Then, going with your gut isn’t always best (despite what President Donald Trump may tell you). Writer Steven Johnson says making better decisions can be as simple as considering multiple options instead of focusing on the “should I” or “shouldn’t I.” He’s also got anecdotes about Darwin’s marital deliberations, machine learning, and the call to storm the fortress in which Osama Bin Laden (“probably,” Americans figured) was ensconced. Johnson is the author of Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most. In the Spiel, pronouncing people’s names correctly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following recording may contain explicit language.
0:02.8	I can't get more explicit than May.
0:05.7	Let's just say it may.
0:07.0	["Main Theme Song"]
0:11.0	It's Friday, December 14, 2018, from Slate.
0:13.8	It's the gist I'm Mike Pesca.
0:16.1	I was planning to do a show where we just quoted liberals
0:18.9	who were sad about the demise of the weekly standard.
0:22.4	But alas, from rumor of the weekly standards demise, too.
0:26.6	Hey, guys, clean out your offices by five.
0:29.2	That asked a way quickly.
0:30.8	And now the standard is no more.
0:33.2	There is a standard defense of the standard that goes like this.
0:36.3	In an age of propaganda that's indifferent to truth
0:40.4	and in age where a fealty to Trump is more valued on the right
0:44.1	than fealty to fact and in age when allowing an argument,
0:47.2	any argument to breathe and develop is rare.
0:50.8	The weekly standard had a valued place.
0:53.6	That's all true, but I want to go beyond that.
0:55.2	I want to offer more than a defense of the standard.
0:57.3	I want you champion it.
0:59.0	When I was 12 or 13 years old,
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