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900. How to Argue Better: Steel Manning, Straw Manning, and the Difference That Costs You Information
Brian breaks down two terms that get thrown around loosely and are worth understanding precisely: the straw man and the steel man. One of them is a trap most leaders fall into daily without any bad intent, usually because they're moving fast and their brain compresses what someone said into something simpler and easier to argue with. The other is a discipline that traces back to game theorist Anatol Rapoport and was put in front of a business audience by philosopher Daniel Dennett, and Charlie Munger had his own version of it. Brian walks through both with the same workplace conversation…
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