Sublime

“This is the crux of science,” he’d say with enthusiasm. “All science is modeling. In all science you are abstracting from nature. The question is: is it a useful abstraction.” Useful, to Bob Glass, meant: Does it help solve a problem?

an issue of personal consistency with our word.

However, he continues, over the last 50 years the need for people to be “legible” and fit into a standard model of work has merely become “industrially preferable.” This puts government and institutional leaders in a position where they are incentivized to convince people that following rigid paths in their institutions is the correct path for ever

Discovery hinges on the questions to be asked.

They encourage us to repress anomalies. Anomalies are disruptive,

But how are plausible new hypotheses generated? 7.

By changing the context in which two things are compared, you submerge certain features and force others to the surface.

an effective problem-solving culture was one that balanced standard practice—whatever it happened to be—with forces that pushed in the opposite direction.

‘social practice of sensemaking’ that shifts ‘from individual cognition to shared understanding’.