https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-we-all-need-to-think-both-fast-and-slow-to-survive-covid-19/

Humans don’t analyze the world rationally—things just come at you too fast. Instead, we rely on a utilitarian, simplified, and often inaccurate, framework of assumptions and heuristics. That’s the thesis of Nobel Prize–winning economist Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking Fast and Slow. As societies and communities, we often fall into the same trap. As the coronavirus pandemic surges into every corner of the globe and economy, it now seems undeniable that some widely held assumptions about our global economy and institutions are deeply flawed. So as we think fast and prepare to survive, we should consider how our think-fast economy may have primed the pump for the Covid-19 disaster and future disasters to come—and also think slow about how to avoid and solve such problems in the future.

Levi Tillemann is the author of The Great Race: The Global Quest for the Car of the Future. He founded Valence Strategic and was an adviser to the Department of Energy in the Obama Administration.