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Means and instrumentalities change; motives and ends remain the same:
Will Durant • The Lessons of History
There is a change in process . End goal remains the same. Here means and extenalities can refer to technology also. So if we take this statement at face value only technology changes . Values thnking and behaviour remins the same. Hummanity is just optimizing for.resources
The key in maths, and with maps, is to find the most appropriate level of abstraction for the given moment.
Eugenia Cheng • How to Bake Pi
Lets walk through a step-by-step of how to use the framework. We'll go through 5 steps:
• Spell Out Your Variables
• Give Each Variable A Score
• Identify What Matters Most
• Evaluate Your Ability To Change The Variable
• Understand The Time Horizon Of Change
Bangaly Kaba • Impact = Environment x Skills: How to Make Career Decisions
Yet to increase your chances of making those connections, pay attention to two sets of details: both the history of the subject and the technical language used to describe that subject.
Steven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
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The ability to move freely, to shift from one category to another, is one of the chief characteristics of ‘abstract thinking.’”
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
financial analysts have a better intuition for the value of resources than for processes.
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)
He wrote: “The moral of this is not that ignorance is an advantage. But some of us are too much attracted by the thought of rare things and forget the law of averages in diagnosis.”
Morgan Housel • Same as Ever: Timeless Lessons on Risk, Opportunity and Living a Good Life
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The key message here is: Learning requires a growth mindset, a truth filter, and lots of reading.
Steven Kotler • The Art of Impossible
Because the weakness of any particular muscle indicated the presence of a pathologic process in its corresponding organ (corroborated by diagnosis through acupuncture and physical or laboratory examination), it was a highly useful clinical tool to detect disease. Thousands of practitioners began to use the method, and data rapidly accumulated showi
... See moreDavid R. Hawkins • Power vs. Force: The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior
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