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The famous double-slit laser experiment, first carried out in 1927 by Clinton Davisson and Lester Germer at Bell Labs, illustrates another spooky quantum phenomenon.26 Physics Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman has said the experiment is “impossible, absolutely impossible to explain in any classical way” [emphasis in original], and it “has in it th
... See moreMark Gober • An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life
Richard Feynman, the great physicist, once said, “Imagine how much harder physics would be if electrons had feelings.” Well, investors have feelings. Quite a few of them. That’s why it’s hard to predict what they’ll do next based solely on what they did in the past.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money
It traditionally assumed that firms were independent, and so changes would be independent, and so their sizes and aggregate effects would be distributed normally.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Post-individualism
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Aggregation Theory
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quantum stuff
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Andy Grove’s quantum leap was to apply manufacturing production principles to the “soft professions,” the administrative, professional, and managerial ranks. He sought to “create an environment that values and emphasizes output”
John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
The economy is never in equilibrium but is rather in a continual state of adaptive change.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
A strange attractor shapes things into patterns based on the formula programmed into its core.