Sublime

Ask a hundred people on the street who Manson is—ninety-nine will tell you he’s the hippie freak who stabbed a bunch of people after playing the White Album backwards.

Paul Humphrey was a session drummer who worked with everyone from Jimmy Smith and Charles Mingus to Frank Zappa and Marvin Gaye. He was also the drummer for Lawrence Welk’s TV show in the late seventies, and his children would sometimes appear with him on the show. Sound familiar?

As I review in 2006 this talk made in 1986, I would not revise a single idea. If anything, I now believe even more strongly that 1) reliability is essential for progress in life and 2) while quantum mechanics is unlearnable for a vast majority, reliability can be learned to great advantage by almost anyone. Indeed, I have often made myself unpopula

“hereditary genius.” He studied how traits such as intelligence and creativity were passed on within particular families.

Lewis Mumford wrote, ‘The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity’.8 Cities’ metabolisms take energy and turn it into knowledge, and bigger cities proportionately generate more patents, more ideas and more GDP, helped by