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Much of our seeming intelligence actually comes not from raw brainpower or a plethora of instincts, but rather from the accumulated repertoire of mental tools (e.g., integers), skills (differentiating right from left), concepts (fly wheels), and categories (basic color terms) that we inherit culturally from earlier generations.
Joseph Henrich • The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
...we’ve been trained to think of organizations as homogenous and mechanistic, with a clear set of rules, a command-and-control structure, and the ability to leverage hierarchy to get things done quickly by issuing top-down directives to reallocate resources to meet objectives.
Aric Wood • The Organization as a Machine: An Outdated Concept - XPLANE | Organizational Change Management Consulting
This innovative flying cargo transport system is called Palletrone.
Researchers at Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech) put a cage around a drone, clever. https://t.co/fLFVhxhi5E
Linus Ekenstamx.comHovercarts
Notes on legibility
this book for sure. it starts so simple. too simple. if-else + loops → … → every conceivable form of software
It's tempting, sometimes, to idealize the trope of the "lazy genius."
I decline to do so. There is a great deal of tedious maintenance work someone needs to do to keep the world running, and an inability to consistently do so is not praiseworthy.
Some smart, low-conscientiousness people... See more
TracingWoodgrainstwitter.comLanguage is our way of giving legibility to ideas.
Only legible ideas survive.
An idea risks signal loss each time it is transmitted. A great idea survives the distance, becoming more legible the further it gets from the source. They survive the common sense test.
Great ideas also retain (or attain) legibility the longer they remain still. An idea at
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