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The Enemy Within
The nazis couldn’t resist the urge to separate themselves from non-arian elements, just as the post-war US establishment couldn’t resist the temptation to go witch-hunting communists. What causes this type of psycho-political auto immune disorder?
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The ‘A’ in AI
Artificial or Augmented, which team do you root for?
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Ignorant, Incompetent, Functionally Stupid, or Just Plain Dumb?
Being ignorant means you’re in the dark. Ignorance can be charming; it’s what makes children and dogs cute.
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A Beautiful Temptation
What constitutes the canonical English language novel? A deceptively simple idea turns into a cognitive quagmire.
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The 2023 Reading List
Reading. The ultimate unfair advantage.
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Getting Over Steve
The gospel of Jesus Christ was an exclusively male affair, but there are at least three female takes on Steve.
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Things I Didn’t Know About Quantum Entanglement
I’ve gained a valuable insight into how humanity’s collective understanding of this enigmatic field has evolved over time. I feel that goes a long way.
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Things I Didn’t Know About Clinical Innovation
Over the last few months, I’ve often felt like a street-fighting urchin who’s put in a karate class; instinctively rebellious against any meddling with what’s already battle-tested. But again and again, I’ve had to accept that going back to first principles and carefully build up a new conceptual framework, has been worth the effort.
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What A Quarter Century Worth of Winners Says About the Booker Prize
Trying to get even the most ephemeral grasp of anything as complex as English language literature, might seem like a fools errand.
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Minding the Gap : the Case Against Anthropology in Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs aren’t looking to understand the world such as it ‘really is’. They just need to get a good enough grasp of a given context.
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The World’s Not Enough : Steve Jobs Held Hostage By Own Exquisite Taste
It’s sad to think that we need disaster to strike in our lives, in order to sober up and see what’s worth a damn. Sad, but at the same time also somehow hopeful.
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Trying to Grasp Photonics
What other branch of science can claim to solve teleportation and levitation? Where else to turn for invisibility cloaks and computers which run on light alone?
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BUST! the Productive Failure of LK-99
Ambient pressure room temperature superconductivity didn’t happen. But the LK-99 debacle was kind of inspiring in at least two ways.
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BOOM!
Let’s sacrifice a goat and pray that room temperature superconductivity is actually finally *happening*!
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The Innovative Stance
Ideation can only happen within a demarcated design space, and the inherent paradox there of course, is that you won’t know where to draw the lines of that space until you’ve developed a fair idea of what you’ll ideate about.