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William Deresiewicz

Multitasking: Giving the World an Advantage it Shouldn’t Have

Echoing the comments of William Deresiewicz, Charlie Munger offers some sage advice on multi-tasking: I will say this, I know no wise person who doesn’t read a lot. I suspect that you can read on the …

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Steven Pinker: What a Broad Education Should Entail

Harvard’s biologist/psychologist Steven Pinker is one of my favorites, even though I’m just starting to get into his work. What makes him great is not just his rational mind, but his …

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How to Think Better: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught

No skill is more valuable and harder to come by than the ability to critically think through problems. If you can think through things better than others, you’ll have fewer problems and more …

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Scientism

William Deresiewicz with an insightful article in The American Scholar arguing that we’ve fallen into the trap of scientism: the belief that science is the only valid form of knowledge. Reading …

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William Deresiewicz on Learning To Lead and the Ills of Exposing Yourself to a Constant Stream of Other People’s Thoughts

William Deresiewicz delivered a stunning lecture on Solitude and Leadership to the United States Military Academy at West Point. In the lecture, Deresiewicz convincingly argues that We don’t …

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