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Dr Tyson Yunkaporta is exactly what we need in the World today ... a person who can help us see the Cosmos through the eyes of the Indigenous Australians ... the longest living culture in the History of our Planet. The Aboriginals kept our country in pristine condition for 40,000 years

“We will go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost effective.” -Kurt Vonnegut

But presence also means permanent availability without any promise of compensation. It is related to the function of zero hour contracts in other sectors, even though motivations for availability are not the same. In the age of the reproducibility of almost everything physical, human presence is one of the few things that cannot be multiplied... See more

To paraphrase David Epstein, to become better strategists and problem solvers we need to learn to “dance across disciplines”, to develop a "high tolerance for ambiguity" and to hone our "ability to connect disparate pieces of information in new ways", because “our greatest strength is the exact opposite of narrow specialization. It is the ability... See more

Perhaps the key to finding the illegible margin is captured in Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Amos Tversky’s quip: “the secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.”

Because you’re looking for something which is hard to see, you have to have some sort of “tinkering budget”... See more