Overview of Scott Adams’ new book. Quote: “Success caused passion more than passion caused success. “

“There lies the quick beating heart of her argument: the gene follows. And one of the ways the gene follows is through this process called genetic accommodation.”

“Females outperformed males on attention, word and face memory, and social cognition tests. Males performed better on spatial processing and sensorimotor speed. Those differences were most pronounced in the 12 to 14 age range.”

“The true creativity of the innovator in the arts is more dramatically evident and more easily distinguished from the routine of the mere practitioner than in the sciences, because art (and humor) operate primarily through the transitory juxtaposition of matrices, whereas science achieves their permanent integration into a a cumulative and hierarchic order.”

“So it seems like the hippocampus maps things in time,” Eichenbaum says, “very much the way it maps in space.”

“…we’re not just winging it.

Rather, we’re endeavoring to make the units of work small enough so that:

Everyone on the team can understand the task being undertaken, and the result we expect it to have.
Regularly and frequently, everyone on the team can reflect on the work done so far, and incorporate lessons learned into the planning for the next steps
Shirky does a good job of conveying the value of the latter point, but I think he fails to understand the importance of the former point.”