Whiplash

This simple proposal—the standardization of that most modest of industrial components—inspired the development of interchangeable parts.14 “He helped spark the second Industrial Revolution,” says Tom Knight, the MIT synthetic biologist. “You can’t overstate the importance of standardization to the creative process. An inventor wants to invent, not

The quantity, or level, of complexity is influenced by four inputs: heterogeneity, a network, interdependency, and adaptation.

He believed that from the earliest age humans build mental models to explain the phenomena—a speeding car, a cat’s raspy tongue—that surround us. As we grow older our experiences collide with these models, forcing us to adjust the models to accommodate our ever-changing reality. As such, child’s play is the act of a child inventing and reinventing

Learning, we argue, is something you do for yourself. Education is something done to you.

Piaget spent much of his eighty-four years striving to understand how children—and by extension, adults—develop an understanding of the world.

Marvin Minsky, the pioneer of artificial intelligence, once said that “the problem with Logo is that it has a grammar but no literature,”

the world is going from “stocks” to “flows.”

Nobody has ever won a Nobel Prize by doing what they’re told,

addition to “buy low, sell high,” another important lesson from venture investing is that when the cost of innovation becomes very low, trying to reduce losses is less important than trying to amplify your wins. In this chapter we discussed the idea of not spending more on due diligence than the price of the investment, and the importance of not po

“you should [code] because you love it, because it’s fun—because it’s wonderful to create machines with your mind. Software is math-in-motion. It’s a miracle of the mind. And if you can do it, really well, there’s absolutely nothing like it.” He