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fallacy that it takes Supermen to forge super teams.
Stanley McChrystal • Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Behavioral economics is demonstrating that humans don’t always act in self-interested ways, and that transactions themselves have an emotional component.
Clay Shirky • Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators
Young brains are designed to explore; old brains are designed to exploit.
Derek Sivers • The Gardener and the Carpenter - by Alison Gopnik | Derek Sivers
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
The question is not whether algorithms can ever foster greatness—they cannot. Their design is fundamentally at odds with the qualities that define great art: depth, complexity, and the capacity to provoke discomfort or transformation. The question is whether we, as creators and consumers, are willing to resist their influence.
Resistance does not me... See more
Resistance does not me... See more