Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul
Fuller cautions: Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery.
The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
“human-powered discovery engine for interestingness.”
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Malamud’s conclusion: “The benefits to increased match quality . . . outweigh the greater loss in skills.” Learning stuff was less important than learning about oneself. Exploration is not just a whimsical luxury of education; it is a central benefit.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Hollis Robbins: Most people focus on the vast reserves of content now available online, but few people ask: “Is this a good teacher?”
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
My basic approach to understanding prodigies is the same as it is for understanding any expert performer. I ask two simple questions: What is the exact nature of the ability? and, What sorts of training made it possible? In thirty years of looking, I have never found an ability that could not be explained by answering these two questions.
Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool • Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
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Annie Murphy Paul • The Cult of Personality Testing: How Personality Tests Are Leading Us to Miseducate Our Children, Mismanage Our Companies, and Misunderstand Ourselves
Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings. Brain science shows this claim is truer than we imagined.
Annie Murphy Paul • Opinion | Your Brain on Fiction (Published 2012)
The “naked” brain, the un-extended brain, is not that powerful.