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At work, you’re expected to have intelligent opinions and propose smart solutions to problems. But, when you’re working on something that is very complex, it’s intimidating and exhausting to have opinions on the biggest challenges. It’s so easy to focus your attention on the issues that are easy to grok and which won’t (literally) blow up in your f
... See moreDaniel Burka • A Designer’s Guide to Parkinson’s Law of Triviality
Jonathan Simcoe added
The best people in both groups spend a lot of time reflecting on some version of the Hamming question—"what are the most important problems in your field, and why aren’t you working on them?” In general, no one reflects on this question enough, but the best people do it the most, and have the best ‘problem taste’, which is some combination of learn... See more
blog.samaltman.com • Researchers and Founders - Sam Altman
Johanna added
Another example of this sort of thing that I am constantly frustrated with is something that I experience as other people being very lacking in curiosity, but from the inside is probably more a lack of reflexive agency over their understanding of the world: It seems like people just stay confused about things that matter to them, and I find this ut
... See moreDavid R. MacIver • Learning to exercise agency
Stuart Evans added
Now we come back to the question from the start: Why do we not have more intellectually curious adults? The first reason is that people are intellectually lazy. This is not a novel observation but it explains part of the phenomenon. We need to keep in mind that when improving mental models, they get—at least at first—more complex. Things that seeme... See more
Sven Schnieders • The Death of Intellectual Curiosity
sari added
I think that talking about agency and introspection separately is misguided. People who emphasize how to get things done, and move faster, and reach higher levels of mastery—agency without introspection—tend to get pulled into fierce yet boring status competitions. People who emphasize introspection and emotions but without a problem solving mental... See more
alex and added
For each K(nowledge), try to think up a potential topic for a small group discussion. What are the personal implications, applications, or questions around this piece of knowledge? Is there a meaty and interesting discussion to be had around not the knowledge itself, but the implications of that knowledge to the people in the room?
Devin Hunt • The Workshop Survival Guide: How to design and teach educational workshops that work every time
It's the same with most successful people. They're never more engaged than when you disagree with them. Whereas the obstinate don't want to hear you. When you point out problems, their eyes glaze over, and their replies sound like ideologues talking about matters of doctrine.