Sublime

Another aspect of the forecaster training involved ferociously dissecting prediction results in search of lessons, especially for predictions that turned out bad.

a curious outsider

Knowledge increasingly needs not merely to be durable, but also flexible—both sticky and capable of broad application.

“genuinely curious about, well, really everything.”

or their biography of Jackson Pollock that won the Pulitzer Prize.

But for learning that is both durable (it sticks) and flexible (it can be applied broadly), fast and easy is precisely the problem.