Modeling

Join host Nick Ledger as he explores why every model ever built is technically wrong but useful. Discover how smart people create simplified versions of reality and make high-stakes decisions, from burrito economics to why your brain misleads you. Embrace being usefully wrong.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTVThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.

Join host Nick Ledger as he explores why your brain constructs flawed models of reality—and why that's brilliant design. Drawing on cognitive science and behavioral economics, Nick reveals how mental shortcuts like confirmation bias and loss aversion shape your decisions without you realizing it.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTVThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.

Nick Ledger examines invisible assumptions in financial models, from rational actor theory to normal distributions, exploring catastrophic failures like LTCM's 1998 collapse and 2008 crisis. Learn why making hidden assumptions explicit is the only defense against models that fail when reality doesn't cooperate.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTVThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.

Host Nick Ledger explores George Box's principle "all models are wrong, but some are useful" through economics, statistics, and the Burrito Index. From Wall Street's 2008 crisis to dating algorithms, discover why simplified models often outperform complex ones and why embracing useful wrongness beats perfect accuracy.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTVThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.