Become A Learning Machine
I always find it interesting and revealing when different people offer the same advice. Especially when those pople are not connected and come from different fundamental disciplines. Charlie Munger,...
View ArticleSusan Sontag: The Function of Common Sense
I made it through Susan Sontag’s recently released notebooks: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980. “As Consciousness” is the second of three projected volumes. The...
View ArticleGiving people what they want
Giving the public what the public supposedly wants is like asking your kids what they want for dinner and they say, “Oh, we want fries.” — Francis Ford Coppola The post Giving people what they want...
View ArticleArthur Schopenhauer: Men of learning …
“Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the...
View ArticleIgnorance Increases the Further Away you Are
While I’m not sure of the math, I enjoyed this quote from Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics: Ignorance increases the square of the distance from a...
View ArticleThe role of error in innovation
The British economist William Stanley Jevons in 1874: It would be an error to suppose that the great discoverer seizes at once upon the truth, or has any unerring method of divining it. In all...
View Article“We get to think the world is progressing when it is only repeating itself.”
If we pay no attention to words whatever, we may become like the isolated gentleman who invents a new perpetual-motion machine on old lines in ignorance of all previous plans, and then is surprised...
View ArticleBrené Brown: Your Critics Aren’t Always The Ones Who Count
Brené Brown, author of Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead with an excellent talk on how we should think about critics. “If you’re not in...
View ArticleJoseph Tussman: Getting the World to Do the Work for You
“What the pupil must learn, if he learns anything at all, is that the world will do most of the work for you, provided you cooperate with it by identifying how it really works and aligning with those...
View ArticleThe Iconic Think Different Apple Commercial Narrated by Steve Jobs
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree...
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