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What Jobs is referring to is the fundamental difference between "builders" and craftsmen, or why even though engineering builds, it is design which establishes . Essentially, products—no matter if they're technological in nature or not—do not exist in a vacuum. On the contrary, every single product worth its salt is designed to exist within a... See more
Alpha • On Founder Taste
“There is no knowing for a fact. The only dependable things are humility and looking.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory
― Richard Powers, The Overstory
The Overstory Quotes by Richard Powers
"Kinship mind is a way of improving and preserving memory in relationships with others. If you learn something with or from another person, this knowledge now sits in the relationship between you." - Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk
Remember
Within a larger, and more political, point in his column, George Will explains something about structuring systems so as to “nudge” people toward a particular behavior pattern, without mandating anything: George F. Will: Nudge Against the Fudge
Such is the power of inertia in human behavior, and the tendency of individuals to emulate others’... See more
Context and “Choice Architectures”
The Nobel laureate particle physicist Frank Wilczek once said that beauty exists as a dance between opposite forces. First, he said, beauty benefits from symmetry, which he defined as “change without change.” If you rotate a circle, it remains a circle, just as reversing the sides of an equation still reveals a truth (2+2=4, and 4=2+2). But beauty... See more
Derek Thompson • What Moneyball-for-Everything Has Done to American Culture
Civilizations and companies follow growth–decay cycles; founders’ creative will determines whether new challenges become opportunities.
TRANSCRIPT
Man is a competitive animal, and his states must be like himself.
And then if you have the book, I think you're especially going to be interested in the growth and decay chapter.
They're talking about civilizations.
I think with you and I, obviously the lessons for companies jumps off the page.
This is really why there's always more opportunity.
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Note2self: this reminds me of Claude shannon vs Norbert Weiner school of thought
What this exercise shows students is that just because you have looked at something doesn’t mean that you have seen it. Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness. Or, in slightly more general terms: access is not synonymous with learning. What turns access into learning is... See more