Game Theory: Winning the Game of Life

Human civilization is built on pyramids. Not just the stone ones baked under the Egyptian sun, but invisible structures of thought, meaning, and awareness.From raw impulse to true revelation, most people never make the climb. Despite unprecedented access to information and powerf ...  Show more

There’s a strange shift happening in how we talk about emotions.On the surface, it sounds healthy. Emotionally intelligent. Even enlightened.But beneath the polished language is something far more unsettling.Words that were meant to heal are now being weaponized, used to confuse, ...  Show more

One of the most fascinating areas of mathematics and economics is game theory.  Game theory involves analyzing competitive situations where multiple participants make interdependent decisions. In other words, the result will depend not just on what you decide but on what someone ...  Show more

Game Theory is supposed to show how businesses (and prisoners) can outdo each other to win out over their competition. While this is great in theory Game Theory actually shows us much more about how to get along with our partners, friends, and allies. Learn more about your ad cho ...  Show more

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss game theory, the mathematical study of decision-making. First formulated in the 1940s, the discipline entails devising 'games' to simulate situations of conflict or cooperation. It allows researchers to unravel decision-making strategies, and e ...  Show more

What does your worldview, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Game theory have in common? As it turns out quite a lot . . . Last week while talking with Ghazi, Zero Sum and Infinite Sum games came up . . . I thought I would unpack that idea for even though it is quite simple at face va ...  Show more