metacognition

Metaskills: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 16, 2024

METASKILLS: Five Talents for the Robotic Age Marty Neumeier New Riders (2012) A brilliant examination of superior thinking by a superior thinker Note: There are a few books that I re-read at least once a year because they have had…

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Deep Utopia: A Book Review by Bob Morris

April 6, 2024

Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World Nick Bostrom Ideapress (March 2024) “Be careful what you wish for.”  Aesop In my review of one of Nick Bostrom’s previously published books, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (2014), I noted that…

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METASKILLS: A book review by Bob Morris

April 20, 2022

METASKILLS: Five Talents for the Robotic Age Marty Neumeier New Riders (2012) A brilliant examination of superior thinking by a superior thinker Note: There are a few books that I re-read at least once year because they have had such…

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Super Thinking: A book review by Bob Morris

July 30, 2019

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann Portfolio/Penguin (June 1919) How to develop a mind that can jump jurisdictional boundaries to create unique value J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the…

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METASKILLS: A book review by Bob Morris

June 8, 2017

METASKILLS: Five Talents for the Robotic Age Marty Neumeier New Riders (2012) J. H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term metacognition when suggesting that it “refers to one’s knowledge concerning one’s own cognitive processes or anything related…

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Superintelligence: A book review by Bob Morris

September 9, 2015

Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies Nick Bostrom Oxford University Press (2015) How to approach what could be “quite possibly the most important and most daunting challenge humanity has ever faced” John H. Flavell was probably the first to use the term…

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“There is not all that much new in the best [business] books.”

February 6, 2014

In a recent post for the First Friday Book Synopsis website, Randy Mayeux observes: “I’ve read business books for decades, and presented synopses of many of them for nearly 16 full years. You know what? There is not all that…

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