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Book Report: Mindware

Posted on July 4, 2018 by Lee Brooks — 1 Comment

“Society pays dearly for all the experiments it could have conducted but didn’t. Hundreds of thousands of people have died, millions of crimes have been committed, and billions of dollars have been wasted because people have bulled ahead on their…

Tagged with: cognition, confirmation bias, cost-benefit analysis, Daniel Kahneman, Dialecticism, Drunk Tank Pink, effort heuristic, emoji, endowment effect, fundamental attribution error, HiPPOs, ideomotor mimicry, illusory correlation, logic, loss aversion, Matthew Syed, Mindware, mulling, multiple regression analysis, Nautilus, representativeness heuristic, Richard E. Nisbett, Scared Straight, scientific method, spreading activation, status quo bias, sunk cost fallacy, Superforecasting, The HEAD Game, Thinking Fast and Slow, Will Durant, words that work
Posted in Books, Everything, Leadership, Math and Science

Book Report: Scale

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Lee Brooks — 1 Comment

“Even though the conceptual and mathematical structure of the growth equation is the same for organisms, social insect communities, and cities, the consequences are quite different: sublinear scaling and economies of scale that dominate biology lead to stable bounded growth…

Tagged with: Allometry, Anthropocene, Antifragile, Benoit Mandelbrot, collapse, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, economics, finite time singularity, fractals, Galileo, health span, I Contain Multitudes, impedance matching, Industrial Revolution, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Jane Jacobs, John Bartholomew, Kenneth Boulding, Leonardo Da Vinci, M. H. Lietzke, metabolism, Nautilus, networks, nonlinearity, Peter Medawar, Philip Zimbardo, Rayleigh, Santa Fe Institute, scaling, scientific method, smart cities, solar energy, Stanley Milgram, Steve Strogatz, The Joy of X, thermodynamics, Thomas Malthus, Urbanocene, Yacov Zahavi, Zipf's Law
Posted in Books, Everything, Math and Science

The Scourge of Confirmation Bias

Posted on February 1, 2018 by Lee Brooks — 12 Comments

“Scientists are trained to be cautious. They know that no matter how tempting it is to anoint a pet hypothesis as The Truth, alternative explanations must get a hearing. And they must seriously consider the possibility that their initial hunch…

Tagged with: Black Box Thinking, chemtrails, confirmation bias, Dan Gardner, Eric Ries, falsification, hypothesis, Matthew Syed, numbers, Paul Schoemaker, Philip E Tetlock, Philip Mudd, scientific method, Superforecasting, The HEAD Game, The Lean Startup
Posted in Books, Leadership, Math and Science

Book Report: Brilliant Blunders

Posted on November 23, 2013 by Lee Brooks — 3 Comments

“How could a man of such intellectual powers as Kelvin be so sure that he was right even when he was dead wrong? Like all humans, Kelvin still had to use the hardware between his ears – his brain –…

Tagged with: blunders, Darwin, denial, discovery, Einstein, Hoyle, Kelvin, lessons, mistakes, opportunities, passion, Pauling, pioneers, scientific method, selection bias
Posted in Books, Math and Science

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