Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Ballmer might be the perfect man to work alongside a visionary, but is he the perfect man to replace one?
Simon Sinek • Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
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
Marc Rubinstein • Disrupting Bloomberg
The smart person accepts. The idiot insists.
Michael Lewis • Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World
Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
I am frequently asked if I am a basketball player, and I always say no. One time years ago John Havlicek and I were standing in an airport when he asked me why I did that. I told him what I had been telling myself all along: basketball is what I do, it’s not who I am.
David Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
“My inclination is to attack a problem by building a narrative. I figure out the fundamental questions to ask, and if you ask those questions of the people who actually do know their stuff, you are still exactly where you would be if you had all this other knowledge inherently. It’s mosaic building. I just keep putting those tiles together. Imagine
... See moreDavid Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The reason that elite athletes seem to have superhuman reflexes is that they recognize patterns of ball or body movements that tell them what’s coming before it happens. When tested outside of their sport context, their superhuman reactions disappear.
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
