January 2023
Beginner to intermediate
270 pages
6h 1m
English
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Every Question Ever Asked
Right now, as I write this, I’m thinking about some of the big and small decisions I have to make today. Should I add sugar to my coffee? Should I have a haircut before my meeting? Should I be reminding the firm I’m talking to about the job offer they are supposed to send me? Should I spend my time today finishing the proposal to prospective publishers about this book? At a granular level, every action we take personally or professionally involves data. In the examples I used, this could be data about calorie counts, who I’m meeting, what when I last spoke to the company in question, and so on. For almost all of these, the data we process is implicit, often even not a result of conscious ...