The way of the thing “Tao” refers to the inner nature or natural tendency of things. For example, water tends to flow downhill: that is… Read More »Boardroom: Lessons from Surfing (4) – Tao, Timing, Vectors
CX. There are, moreover, some inventions which render it probable that men may pass and hurry over the most noble discoveries which lie immediately before… Read More »Technology (22): Francis Bacon on Combinatorial Innovation, the Big Three Technologies of the Renaissance, and Pure Science
The answer [to avoiding dings] is easy: don’t surf. Degree33 Surfboards Equipment will get damaged and (eventually) break. You get tired and scared and hurt… Read More »Boardroom: Lessons from Surfing (3) – Dings and Scars
Your Own Fool There will be times while you’re learning to surf that you will feel like a fool: When you ask stupid questions. When… Read More »Boardroom: Lessons from Surfing (2) – Whose Fool?
The first rule of surfing is that if you want to learn to surf, you have to get in the water and go surfing. There… Read More »Boardroom: Lessons from Surfing (1) – In the Water
This is an extract from a much longer article by Dan Wang. His point about the learning-doing feedback loop applies to just about everything, of… Read More »Technology (21): Dan Wang on Technology as Process and Learning by Doing
“I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” The New Testament – Revelation There’s theology… Read More »All Things, New
John W. Gardner (U.S. Secretary of State 1965 – 1969) is a thoughtful voice about self- and social-renewal and leadership: It is a puzzle why… Read More »Recommendation: John W. Gardner on Self Renewal
This interview on the 80,000 Hours podcast with Rachel Glennerster (chief economist at the UK’s Department for International Development and former executive director of J-PAL)… Read More »Recommendation: Rachel Glennerster on Poverty, Global Development, Randomised Controlled Trials and more
Many years ago in New York I saw on the side of a bus a whiskey ad I’ve remembered all this time. It’s been for… Read More »One Hundred Million Souls for the Emperor: Paul Fussell on Experience and Perspective