Messy
by Tim Harford
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Harford argues that messy environments, improvisation, and randomness often outperform rigid planning. Disorder fuels creativity and resilience when we stop fighting it.
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It draws on Thinking, Fast and Slow and Flow.
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Harford references Kahneman's overconfidence and planning fallacy.
Harford engages with Csikszentmihalyi's creativity research.
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