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Peter Thiel • Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Theorizing is not nearly as effective as trying
—Charles F. Kettering
Michel Foucault • Intellectuals and power: A conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress (Edge Question)
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Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
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A scientific theory is never proven right. It’s simply not proven wrong. Only when scientists work hard—but fail—to beat the crap out of their own ideas can they begin to develop confidence in those ideas. Even after a theory gains acceptance, new facts often emerge, requiring the refinement or complete abandonment of the status quo.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Albert Wenger • A Short Note on Persistent Practices
To try to study “women” or “men” under Theory is to miss the point. For the applied postmodernists, the topic of interest is “gender”—which they define as the behaviors and expectations that people considered men and women are taught to perform, which—though they cannot be entirely done away with—can be disrupted, confused, and complicated.