Brain Food: Guts Over Brains

Pablo Picasso nailed it in a typically elliptical way when he said that ‘Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.’ Questions are what matter. Questions, and discovering the right ones, are the key to staying on course. Are our tactics, our day-today decisions, based on our long-term goals? The wave of information threatens to obscure

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The human brain is incredible at synthesizing and uncovering meaning from information but is largely deficient (compared to computers) at long-term memory storage and raw processing power. At various work experiences we've had over the years (both Google and Yelp), a common problem came up: critical information didn't arrive at the right place at t... See more