Category Archives: Delicious

Why brainstorming doesn’t work – Post Leadership – The Washington Post

The King of Human Error | Business | Vanity Fair

Michael Lewis meets Daniel Kahneman

I Was Wrong, and So Are You – Magazine – The Atlantic

Confirmation bias, FTW!

12 Negotiation Tips for People Who Hate Negotiating

Zombie Volcano or New Supervolcano? : Discovery News

Internet Evolution – Todd Watson – An Interview With Michael Lewis & Billy Beane: Data in Baseball & Business

Just be very careful what you measure, because the minute you start measuring the wrong thing it becomes a fetish.

Steve Jobs’s Real Genius: Gladwell :The New Yorker

Jobs did not want the iPhone and the iPod and the iPad to be opened up and fiddled with, because in his eyes they were perfect.

The real reason for brains: Daniel Wolpert on TED.com

The inputs are noisy!

Lex Luthor retires as Cardinals manager | American McCarver. Your Sports Blog.

Minimum viable Montessori | A human capitalist

I asked that girl, ‘Would you teach them enough biotechnology to pass?’ And she said, ‘How would I do that? I don’t know the subject.’ I said, ‘No, use the method of the grandmother.’ She said, ‘What’s that?’ I said, ‘Well, what you’ve got to do is stand behind them and admire them all the time. Just say to them, ‘That’s cool. That’s fantastic. What is that? Can you do that again? Can you show me some more?’’ She did that for two months.”

How Online Innovators Are Disrupting Education: Harvard Business Review

“Part of the challenge with revamping America’s educational system resides in well-intentioned people who have focused on answering the wrong question.”

Vimeo: Murmuration

Murmuration

Patrick Stewart on Charlie Rose re: Macbeth

“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: the key word is AND.”

Catfish Stew: How Come Jesus Gets Industrial Disease?

“Those are the melodies of the baseball season; the setup lines and the punch lines are the structure of the stories we’re telling. Playing those songs straight quickly becomes boring. Riffing off the melodies: that’s more interesting to me.”

Steve Jobs’s Genius – NYTimes.com

Walter Isaacson article: “In the world of invention and innovation, that means combining an appreciation of the humanities with an understanding of science — connecting artistry to technology, poetry to processors.”

Prosthetic Smartphone Arm of the Day

Everybody wants prosthetics forearms on top of their real arms

Steve Jobs’ deification serves a very basic and fundamental human need « strategy profs

Make study more effective, the easy way

Reorganize the information yourself

Infographic: The World of Megachurches – Culture – GOOD

Footnote of the Day, Arnold Kling