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I first came to see reverse synergy in the pentagon decision meeting I attended late 1990’s. One of my associates mentioned it. Bad decisions at the pentagon are usually “sunk cost” fallacy that the majority signs up for.

In my long career I avoided assignments at the pentagon, only brief meetings l

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Jimmy Gleeson's avatar

This was my pervading argument about Covid, a sunk cost logical fallacy that they were going to ride off into a ravine. And then they did...

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