“Our attitude matters, and not because we can stop the march of technological prowess even if we wanted to, but because our perspective on disruption affects how well prepared for it we will be. There is plenty of room between…
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Book Report: Deep Thinking
Tagged with: AlphaGo, Amos Tversky, artificial intelligence, automation, Bill Gates, Bounce, chess, competition, Dan Ariely, Daniel Kahneman, Data and Goliath, Deep Thinking, Der Speigel, disruption, expertise, Garry Kasparov, innovation, Larry Smith, Larry Tesler, machine learning, Mikhail Botvinnik, Moravec's Paradox, performance, philosophy, pragmatism, privacy, problem solving, Success and Luck, technology, The Pentagon's Brain, Vasily Smyslov, Weapons of Math Destruction, Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
Book Report: Success and Luck
“If any of you go running or ride a bike, you’ll know that when you’re running of bicycling into the wind, you’re very aware of it. You just can’t wait till the course turns around and you’ve got the wind…
Tagged with: Amos Tversky, behavioural economics, Branko Milanovic, Charlie Munger, David Brooks, E.B. White, economics, Italo Calvino, luck, meritocracy, Napolean Bonaparte, Robert H. Frank, success, Success and Luck, taxes, The Improbability Principle, Tom Gilovich, wealth gap
Posted in Books, Leadership, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Leadership, Math and Science
Book Report: Drunk Tank Pink
“These studies tell us something profound and perhaps a bit disturbing about what makes us who we are: there isn’t a single version of ‘you’. It’s comforting to believe that there’s an essential version of each of us, that good…
Tagged with: Adam Alter, Drunk Tank Pink, influence, labels, maps, naming, social psychology, symbols, xenophobia
Posted in Books, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Math and Science
Book Report: The Ghost Map
“Epidemics create a kind of history from below: they can be world-changing, but the participants are almost inevitably ordinary folk, following their established routines, not thinking for a second about how their actions will be recorded for posterity. And of…
Tagged with: Carl Sagan, cholera, epidemiology, Henry Whitehead, Jane Jacobs, John Snow, London, maps, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map
Posted in Books, Leadership, Marketing, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Leadership, Marketing, Math and Science
Book Report: The Pentagon’s Brain
“Bob Taylor went to DARPA director Charles Herzfeld to request enough money to fund a networked connection linking four different university computers, or nodes. Herzfeld told Taylor he thought it sounded like a good idea but he was concerned about reliability.…
Tagged with: Annie Jacobsen, Castle Bravo, DARPA, Internet, killer robots, NASA, Obliquity, Skynet, technology, The Pentagon's Brain, warfare
Posted in Books, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Math and Science
Book Report: What Should We Be Worried About
“In all sorts of complex systems, this is the general trend: Increasing the coupling between the parts seems harmless enough at first. But then, abruptly, when the coupling crosses a critical value everything changes. The exact nature of the altered state…
Tagged with: Adam Alter, Alison Gopnik, Amanda Gefter, Amos Tversky, Andrian Kreye, Antony Garret Lisi, Brian Eno, Brian Knutson, Carlo Rovelli, Dan Sperber, Daniel Kahneman, David Bodanis, Douglas T. Kenrick, Eric R. Weinstein, Evgeny Morozov, Haim Harari, James J. O'Donnell, Karl Sabbagh, Kirsten Bomblies, Leo M. Chalupa, Margaret Levi, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Neil Gershenfeld, Paul Saffo, Peter Schwartz, Randolph Nesse, Roger Highfeld, Satyajit Das, Stephon H. Alexander, Steven Pinker, Steven Strogatz, Tania Lombrozo, Tim O'Reilly, Timo Hannay, Timothy Taylor, worries
Posted in Books, Everything, Finance, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Finance, Math and Science
Book Report: Mind Wide Open
“So this is your brain, in all its multiplicity. You are part reptile, part mammal, part primate, part homo sapiens. you are a twitchy amygdala; you are a dopamine fiend; you are under the spell of oxytocin. You are an unthinkably…
Tagged with: Aldous Huxley, amygdala, attention, brain, fear, l'esprit d'escalier, Linchpin, love, Mind Wide Open, neuroscience, oxytocin, phobia, reductionism, Seth Godin, Steven Johnson, Steven Pinker, Tor Norretranders
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Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
Book Report: Operation Paperclip
“The employment of German scientists was specifically and strategically aimed at achieving military supremacy over the Soviet Union before the Soviet Union was able to dominate the United States. Attaining supreme military power meant marshaling all the cutting-edge science and…
Tagged with: Adolf Hitler, Annie Jacobsen, ARPA, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Edward Teller, George F. Kennan, George Merck, Herbert York, Long Telegram, military-industrial complex, Nazis, New York Times, Operation Paperclip, public relations, Sarin, Tabun, Wernher von Braun, World War 2
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
Book Report: Emergence
“As our everyday life becomes increasingly populated by artificial emergence, we will find ourselves relying more and more on the logic of these systems – both in corporate America, where ‘bottom-up intelligence’ has started to replace ‘quality management’ as the…
Tagged with: ants, distributed intelligence, Emergence, General Stanley McChrystal, Jane Jacobs, Mitch Resnick, NewsRadio, slime mold, Steven Johnson, swarms, Team of Teams
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science
Book Report: Where Good Ideas Come From
“A series of shared properties and patterns recur again and again in unusually fertile environments. I have distilled them down into seven patterns. The more we embrace these patterns – in our private work habits and hobbies, in our office…
Tagged with: adjacent possible, Benjamin Franklin, commonplace book, Communitech, dreams, error, flow, Great Man Theory, innovation, Isaac Asimov, James Watt, Kitchener, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, NeoNurture, Sigmund Freud, Steven Johnson, Stuart Kauffman, TED, Thomas Jefferson, Waterloo, William James, William Stanley Jevons
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Management, Math and Science
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