Brainstorms: Creativity and Complexity
Complexity gives a comforting impression of control, while simplicity is hard to distinguish from cluelessness.
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
Secondly, specialists toil within a singular tradition and apply formulaic solutions to situations that are rarely well-defined. This often results in intellectual acrobatics to justify one’s perspective in the face of conflicting data.
Vikram Mansharamani • All Hail the Generalist
you have to use heuristics (rules-of-thumb) from received wisdom to help direct your creative energy.
Ben Hunt • Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion
emergent phenomena, ergodicity, radical uncertainty, and computational irreducibility.
Richard Bookstaber • The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction
The perception is that in today’s world, you don’t need to learn how to think as long as you can iterate faster than others.