Posts Tagged ‘Thinking’
Wayne Hurlbert’s Review of The Genius Machine
The Genius Machine has gotten more than its fair share of great reviews. I don't post them since they can be found easily. But one came in today, written by Wayne Hurlbert, that is the very model of conciseness. "This book is about a third kind of thinking, one that is directed toward improving an existing idea, thinking through a complete issue, [...]
Essentialism — A Rational Response to Irrational Times
When the financial environment goes through a sudden and radical change, every person and every enterprise will go through an urgent rethinking, since anything and everything about the future that we once had reasonable expectations about is now open to question. Since the nature of a massive degraded environmental change is so complete and [...]
Krugman Makes Distinction, Wins Nobel
Congratulations to Paul Krugman on his Nobel Prize, honoring him for work begun when he was in his young twenties. A client, Thomas Signer, also an economist, sent me a note the morning of the announcement. Mr. Signer has been previewing The Genius Machine and is a big fan of the notion that thinking is all about making new distinctions. He [...]
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