http://www.newyorker.com/tech/frontal-cortex/why-smart-people-are-stupid

Not all that provocative or really anything new in terms of what we know about cognitive biases and limitations, but still an interesting read. The reason why these points continue to be interesting is because “the root causes of our irrationality are largely unconscious, which means they remain invisible to self-analysis and impermeable to intelligence.” What is most interesting perhaps is that cognitive biases extend to everyone equally and tend not to be mitigated by intelligence.