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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
Louis Pasteur is one of my heroes (he’s one of the bold pioneers who helped get germ-theory established as a mainstream orthodoxy).
“Fortune favours the prepared mind.” Read More →
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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
The fact that he wrote the book the film Blade Runner was based on (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) should guarantee Philip K. Dick a place in the “Greatest Science Fiction Writers Of All Time” Hall of Fame. His definition of reality is pithy, succinct and right on the money:
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” Read More →
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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
This week’s quote comes from legendary physicist Stephen Hawking, and is on a subject I’m fascinated with.
“Artificial intelligence and increasing automation is going to decimate middle class jobs, worsening inequality and risking significant political upheaval, Stephen Hawking has warned. In a column in The Guardian, the world-famous physicist wrote that ‘the automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining.'” Read More →
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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
This week’s quote is from entrepreneur, author and social media maven, Gary Vaynerchuk:
“I want my legacy to be something called The Honey Empire. My great ambition in life is to buy the New York Jets, which will mean I’ll have to become a multi-billionaire. If I can build a multi-billion dollar net worth on the back of being a good human being, and teaching the future generations that you can achieve all the financial wants you have by being nice, and being honey over vinegar, that will be far greater legacy than me actually buying the New York Jets.” Read More →
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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I’m currently listening to the behemoth audiobook of Robert A Heinlein’s classic, Stranger in a Strange Land. The book is fantastic, and in light of the current political climate and all the smoke, light and heat it appears to be generating, this quote really jumped out at me:
“Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried. Democracy’s worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of of their constituents.” Read More →
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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I’m a huge fan of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s excellent book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder. The notion of ‘anti fragility’ continues to be offer incredibly powerful perspective for me, and has led to all kinds of positive effects in my life and my work. In fact, I referred to him and his work in RESULTS (pages 71-74). Here’s a Taleb-tidbit to whet your appetite:
“The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about,
the more your ideas end up controlling you.” Read More →
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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
‘Today, the Luddites are generally seen as wrong-headed and backward technophobes, when in fact they were not anti-technology,
but, in the words of Ronnie Bray, “anti-starvation.” Suffice it to say, that had automation delivered on its promise
to maintain or create jobs, at least in the short term, there would have been no Luddite backlash.’ Read More →
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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
This week’s quote comes from George Orwell, and seems to be having a particularly deep resonance for me this week.
“Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.” Read More →
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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I’m reading Global Brain, another masterwork from Howard Bloom (author of the brilliant “tunnel-busting” tome The Lucifer Principle). This line got my attention:
“K.R.L. Hall has said that baboon groups provide “the essential setting for each and every act of learning by the individual…the group is the basic unit for… learning processes.”
In short, baboons are more successful than the wily chimpanzees because their troops are better collective learning machines.” Read More →
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1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
The author Terry Pratchett was someone who had a deep understanding of people and our love of stories. In his book, The Science of Discworld, he said something I still love reading and re-reading. The last phrase, “…stories have a clarity of structure that does not exist in the messiness of the real world” is one that has always stayed with me. Here’s the passage in full:
“We learn to appreciate stories as children. The child’s mind is quick and powerful, but uncontrolled and unsophisticated. Stories appeal to it, and adults rapidly discovered that a story can put an idea into a child’s head like nothing else can. Stories are easy to remember, both for teller and listener. As that child grows to adulthood, the love of stories remains. An adult has to be able to tell stories to the next generation of children, or the culture does not propagate. And an adult needs to be able to tell stories to other adults, such as their boss or their mate, because stories have a clarity of structure that does not exist in the messiness of the real world.” Read More →