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Meaningful political choices rarely involve a single variable; wise decisions require a composite of political, economic, geographical, technological and psychological insights, all informed by an instinct for history.
Henry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
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humans empowered to do what they do best without the prerequisite of years of specialized pattern recognition.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
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University, and later that year, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics.
Randy Olson • Lincoln But Trump: Narrative Metrics and Similarities Between Heroes and Villains
At the macro level, the single word for horizontal progress is globalization—taking things that work somewhere and making them work everywhere. China is the paradigmatic example of
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Our main claim is that we are on the brink of a period of fundamental and irreversible change in the way that the expertise of these specialists is made available in society. Technology will be the main driver of this change. And, in the long run, we will neither need nor want professionals to work in the way that they did in the twentieth century
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No Author Listed • James Watson and Edward O. Wilson: An Intellectual Entente | Harvard Magazine
As a new point of view we turn to bounded rationality, a departure from the mainstream tradition. We no longer can assume that every agent is a perfect calculator. This point of view is given a great deal of emphasis by Herbert Simon. Simon argued that people do not maximize. When they’re forecasting the future, they do not perform the task of
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