Reasoning from Extremes

“No one,” Zach Lowe told Bill Simmons, “is arguing for a longer season. No one wants more than 82 games.”

“I’ve never seen a study,” Dr. Longo told Rich Roll, “showing that if you do 12 hours of fasting a day you’re going to have a problem.”

Both of these November episodes fit within maxims for thinking analytically. Not all of life will include common ground, but when it does, we can start there and decide how much to move away from there.

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