Santa Fe Institute Board of Trustees Chair Michael Mauboussin interviewed Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman. The wide-ranging conversation talks about disciplined intuition, causality, base rates, loss aversion and so much more. You don’t want to miss this. Here’s an excerpt from Kahneman I think…
I feel that the quest to be productive will last my whole lifetime. Every time I think that I have it figured out and put a system in place, the smallest change usually sends the system crumbling.
One of the best parts of Garrett Hardin‘s wonderful Filters Against Folly is when he explores the three filters that help us interpret reality. No matter how much we’d like it to, the world does not only operate in our circle of competence. Thus we must learn ways to distinguish reality in areas…
The biologist E.O. Wilson, now of Harvard University, made his first and largest splash by releasing his book Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, which made the controversial claim (at the time) that human nature has a strong biological basis. His work brought into public consciousness the fields of…
A brief, no-fluff summary of Robert Cialdini’s Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. Six Principles to Always Get Your Way Cialdini has spent a lifetime researching the psychology of compliance. The book highlights six principles of persuasion, which are commonly used by compliance practitioners.…
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none. Zero. You’d be amazed at how much Warren reads — and how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.”
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Leaders | TechnologyHow a new manufacturing technology will change the worldFeb 10th 2011| This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Print me a Stradivarius”Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contentsExplore the editionReuse thi
1. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan (1678)A story of a man in search of truth told with the simple clarity and beauty of Bunyan’s prose make this the ultimate English classic.2.
BEIJING — Within minutes of the immense chemical explosions that sent apocalyptic fireballs into the night sky over Tianjin, Zhou Haisen, 23, was making arrangements to leave town.
Google just made a major management shift that has CEO Larry Page stepping back to focus more on the "bigger picture," while former Android and Chrome SVP Sundar Pichai gets way more responsibility.
Developed by David Allen and published in a bestselling book of the same name, Getting Things Done® became a compelling system for dealing with anything. Tasks around the house, career goals, things to buy—anything you can turn into a command to follow or action to do.
HONG KONG — The wide new boulevards that cut across parts of Weifang in eastern China are largely free of traffic, a quiet reminder of the coastal city’s big ambitions.
While I was studying jazz composition and performance at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, a weathered professor taught me a valuable lesson. With the wisdom of a Tibetan monk, this sage jazz cat whispered to me with understated confidence, "What you learn today, you'll play in six months.
The red flags and marching songs of Syriza during the Greek crisis, plus the expectation that the banks would be nationalised, revived briefly a 20th-century dream: the forced destruction of the market from above.
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