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Pursuit of Genius: Flexner, Einstein, and the Early Faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study Steve Batterson A K Peters/CRC Press (2006) The birth and early years of a truly unique intellectual community I recently re-read and now review a…
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The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible Josh Sullivan and Angela Zutavern PublicAffairs (June 6, 2017 The Ultimate Collaboration on “the other side of complexity” Up front, I share a response to this book’s subtitle:…
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The Social Life of Information John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid Harvard Business Review Press (March 2017) How and why “the ability of information and its technologies [continue] to change the social world for the better” This is an updated…
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Creating Minds is one of the most enjoyable as well as one of the most informative books I have ever read. Recently, I re-read it and enjoyed it even more. I have long admired Howard Gardner’s research on multiple intelligences…
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The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done Peter F. Drucker HarperBusiness (January 2017) How and why, “like every other discipline, effectiveness can be learned and must be earned” This is the 50th anniversary edition of…
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The New York Times Book of Science: More than 150 Years of Groundbreaking Scientific Coverage David Corcoran, Editor Sterling Publishing Group (2015) How “progress in science extends the reach of certainty into precisely articulated realms of uncertainty” In the Foreword,…
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Creating Minds is one of the most enjoyable as well as one of the most informative books I have ever read. Recently, I re-read it and enjoyed it even more. I have long admired Howard Gardner’s research on multiple intelligences…
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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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As a this New Year evolves, you may find many of these observations of special interest and value. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” Stephen Covey “Our greatest weakness lies in giving…
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The “commercialization and vulgarization of genius”
I recall Hannah Arendt’s phrase whenever someone is described as a “genius.” In fact, their claim to fame is their claim to fame…and nothing else. We have so many celebrities with few (if any) talents except for self-promotion. According to…
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