Isaac Newton
Opinions vary about which forms of really dumb thinking are the most common and many of those opinions offer excellent examples of dumb thinking. The opinions I now share are those of several thinkers whom I personally admire. They include…
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Have you been thinking about mistaken extrapolations, limited imagination, and other common mistakes that distract us from thinking more productively about the future? Here is a brief excerpt from an article by Rodney Brooks for MIT Technology Review in…
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50 Economics Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy Tom Butler-Bowdon Nicholas Brealey Publishers (May 2017) An intelligent person’s guide to cutting-edge thinking about economics since 1776 As Tom Butler-Bowdon explains in…
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The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory Susan Wise Bauer W.W. Norton & Company (2015) “Life is short, and Art long, the crisis fleeting; experience is perilous, and decisions difficult.” Hippocrates There…
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Award-winning author/speaker/consultant Louis Patler is President of The B.I.T. Group, (www.louispatler.com) a strategic business consulting & training company. Two of his books were on Steve Jobs’ recommended reading list. The J. Walter Thompson Agency named him one of “The 20…
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2. What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? 3. Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks, “Do all of you want a drink?” The first logician says “I don’t know.” The second…
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World Edward Dolnick Harper Perennial (2011) A compelling account of “a group of scientists who set out to read God’s mind” and what they learned Authors…
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Think Like a Freak: The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner William Morrow/An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers (2014) How and why mastering the economic approach will produce better answers to questions…
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Divine Fury: A History of Genius Darrin McMahon Basic Books (2014) A brilliant analysis of “the emergence of the genius as a figure of extraordinary privilege and power” Before reading this book for the first time, I checked out the…
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Standing on the shoulders of giants
Standing on the shoulders of giants is a metaphor that means “Using the understanding gained by major thinkers who have gone before in order to make intellectual progress.” It is a metaphor of dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants…
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