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At its best, science roams all unknown waters, with ethics at its helm and sails spread with the processive value of coming to know rather than the possessive value of owning the known.
Perry Zurn • Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Anthropologists seek out epiphanies through a sense of “Vuja De.”
Jonathan Littman • The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO's Strategies for Beating the Devil's Advocate and Driving Creativity Throughout Your Organization
I am trying to understand those motivations that lead you to this approach of working hard.
Tarang Shah, Tarang Shah, Sheetal Shah • Venture Capitalists at Work: How VCs Identify and Build Billion-Dollar Successes
Dianna enjoys recognizing and classifying living things that she can pick up, handle, and share with others, which is why she was drawn to fungi. Alvaro Jamarillo also shares Dianna’s desire to recognize and classify living things—but he is driven to classify creatures that are mobile, colorful, and elusive. Today, he is a professional birder.
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
“The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer.”
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
The key factor was that the plant-seeking botanist and the colony-seeking naval officer shared a similar mindset. Both scientist and conqueror began by admitting ignorance – they both said, ‘I don’t know what’s out there.’ They both felt compelled to go out and make new discoveries. And they both hoped the new knowledge thus acquired would make the
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
‘most of human history was spent in hunter-gatherer communities. And in these kinds of communities today—there aren’t many of them—you find a degree of cooperativeness, an absence of alienation that is unheard of in modern society. To ignore our social heredity is a serious mistake. There is a human capacity for good-natured cooperation that is sim
... See moreJoe Lightfoot • A Collective Blooming: The Rise Of The Mutual Aid Community
Personalized Programming was truly an anomaly. We were located in the middle of the woods in a small building on Temple property. None of us were sophisticated businesspeople or experienced professional programmers. We were just people who had been brought together by the energy to do a task. Normally, successful businesses have to plan their growt
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