The Reflective Hedgehog
- Dan Ryan
- Feb 3, 2020
- 2 min read
In their excellent book, "Superforecasting, the art & science of prediction", Professor Philip Tetlock and co-author Dan Gardner introduce us to the philosophy of Archilochus - "The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing". Hedgehogs see the world through a single idea or perspective; in their words "like a pair of green-tinted glasses that the hedgehog never takes off".