What Is Complexity?
While it seems more and more common these days, it’s important to determine when you’re operating in complexity. Complexity means that little things can have a big effect and big things can have no impact. Complexity also …
Culture
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error
“It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I’m right.” — Molière *** “Why is it so fun to be right?” That’s the opening line from Kathryn Schulz’ excellent book Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of …
Talent Is Persistence
Kirby Ferguson is a New York based filmmaker who also writes. He’s also the man behind the Everything is a Remix video series, which is about influence and appropriation in the creative process. Before you can be an expert at …
What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted: 200 Years of Popular Culture in the White House
In the era of Kindles, tweets, Facebook and instant celebrity how should presidents act? “Are we really better off with a president who knows who Snooki is?”, asks Tevi Troy in his insightful book What Jefferson Read, Ike …
Henry Singleton on Strategic Planning — Stay Flexible
Henry Singleton has the best operating and capital deployment record in American business . . . if one took the 100 top business school graduates and made a composite of their triumphs, their record would not be as good as …
Extraordinary is the New Ordinary
Kevin Kelly, in The Improbable is the New Normal, an article on how the internet increasingly exposes us to massive quantities of impossible and improbable events, explores how that may affect our culture. Every minute a new impossible …
Charlie Munger: Bad Morals Drive Out The Good
Charlie Munger on applying Gresham’s Law to lending. The idiotic ideas are all from the social science department and I would put economics in the social sciences department although it has some tinges of reality that remind you of …
The Filter Bubble — What the Internet is Hiding From You
In case you’re interested, we have another article on The Filter Bubble here. Just “googling it” might not be such a great idea after all The Filter Bubble, by Eli Pariser, puts forth an argument that we’re …
David Foster Wallace: SNOOTlet
David Foster Wallace in Consider the Lobster: A SNOOTlet is a little kid who’s wildly, precociously fluent in SWE—Standard Written English—(he is often, recall, the offspring of SNOOTs). Just about every class has a SNOOTlet, so I …