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Art historian Sarah Lewis studies creative achievement, and described Geim’s mindset as representative of the “deliberate amateur.”
(Journalist) David Epstein • Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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Jared Diamond • Collapse
ecological economist Peter Victor
Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
Schneider and Sagan (2005) argue that complex nonequilibriumthermodynamic systems—societies, political systems, ecosystems, and economies—share a universal feature; they regress to earlier, more hierarchical, less complex and less open forms of organization under conditions of environmental stress such as plagues, wars and depressions. This propert
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called “the principle of limited sloppiness.” Be careful not to be too careful, Delbrück warned, or you will unconsciously limit your exploration.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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Eddie Yoon • Snow Leopard
Together with Danny Hillis, Brand chairs the board of the Long Now Foundation, an organization devoted to returning us to thinking in generational timescales.
Alex Evans • The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough
Bhidé, Amar. The Venturesome Economy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.