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Here is David Gelles’ profile of Julia Hartz for The New York Times. To read the complete article and check out other resources, please click here. Credit: Erik Tanner for The New York Times * * * The California native…
Read MoreIn Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Mostly Noisy World, Cal Newport explains how and why the impact of technological tools on most people’s personal lives “is complicated by the fact that these tools mix harm with benefits.…
Read MoreThe Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World Simon Winchester Harper/An imprint of Harper/Collins (May 2018) A brilliant examination of the imprecise process of precision’s evolution As Simon Winchester explains, “Precision was a concept that was invented, quite deliberately,…
Read MoreHere is a brief excerpt from a classic article written by Tim Koller for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. To read the complete article, check out other resources, learn more about the firm, obtain subscription information,…
Read MoreIn Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson explores the natural history of innovation. He offers nine lessons to be learned. Here are the first three: Lesson 1: Evolution and innovation usually happen in the realm of the adjacent…
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In The Origin of (almost) Everything, Graham Lawton and his colleagues at New Scientist explain what happened immediately after the Big Bang occurred. “Around 13.8 billion years ago matter, energy, time and space spontaneously sprang from nothing in the event…
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