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Really interesting point Penelope.
In my effort to find the trim tabs or levers that move the world, or in this case the levers that move one towards intellectual development, I was thinking you might be able to predict someone's intellectual development simply by the metric of how many questions they've asked of them themselves and others in their lifetime.
I also believe the fearlessness comes from being able to the pursuit of truth above the pursuit of comfort.
Assorted Musings
Your occassional dispatch of quick thoughts, cheap shots, and bon mots. 1. Why do fans yell at players, referees, etc. at sports games, even though they sit far away from the action? A few possibilities. First, yelling and chanting is fun, independent of any actual effect on the game. Same reaso...
Your reasoning of why "single and looking" is worse than being in a relationship from the perspective of free energy to work reminded me of this essay Paul Graham recently wrote on the "top idea in your mind" http://paulgraham.com/top.html
Is Being in a Relationship a Time Sink?
Many people focused on building their career view being in a romantic relationship as a time sink. Several entrepreneurs have told me that they don't have time for a relationship. To evaluate whether this is true, we need to look at the three possible relationship states pre-marriage. 1. In a R...
Maybe there is some logic to "monogamy is for dummies, that should apply to your wife/girlfriend as well."
What other cultures are advocating is preserving love not fidelity.
If men are promiscuous they are not likely to fall in love and find a new significant other.
If women are promiscuous, since they are so much more emotional about sex, and craft much more elaborate narratives, it is likely the person they're sleeping with becomes a new significant other.
Do Love and Sex Naturally Go Together?
A couple months ago, at a group dinner, one non-American gentleman at the table said, "I have had sex with other women, but I have never cheated on my wife of 20 years." This was surprising coming from a man. Usually men consider infidelity the sole physical act; women tend to emphasize emotiona...
And culture is one of the slowest things to change. Which is why I'm skeptical about projections of India and China overtaking America as the world's superpower.
With entrepreneurship being the primary driver of economic growth in the decades to come, America still has the most fertile culture and a large window of opportunity to maintain dominance.
Not that I care that much about nationalistic dominance. Where ever the best culture exists on city-state level, I'll consider moving there.
McKinsey, the World's Epicenter of Risk Aversion, Still Produces Entrepreneurs
Hence, entrepreneurship must not require as much risk-taking as people think. This is James Kwak's short, persuasive argument, with more substance of course. He's a former McKinsey consultant who co-founded a company, and he does a nice job poking holes in Malcolm Gladwell's latest piece (abstra...
Great study. I find that article extremely resonant.
All 5 things listed have been focus points for me personally.
What are your thoughts on the paragraph on Eureka Moments?
It's looks to be in conflict with your post here http://ben.casnocha.com/2007/03/the_myth_of_one.html
Though, I would say the writer of the post made it appear to be conflicting, but I bet if you asked the execs they interviewed, they would tell you they did have a creative spark where they were alerted to an opportunity but it only became innovative after the ideas was iterated
The Five Discovery Skills of Innovators
In a post on the HBS blog titled How Do Innovators Think?, a pair of professors who interviewed 3,000 creative executives riff on the five skills common to all: The first skill is what we call "associating." It's a cognitive skill that allows creative people to make connections across seemingly ...
I really like the views expressed here. Had many similar conversations myself the past few days talking with college students at Berkeley and Stanford interested in entrepreneurship.
Being Individuals in an Increasingly Individualistic Culture
Career advisors and motivational speakers are obsessed with "passion" as the key to a happy successful career. I do not question the underlying message but I do think the message ought to be complicated a bit and placed in a broader context. First, "find a job you're passionate about" isn't a si...
This is a difficult issue. I would say one distinction between Tropicana, where the customer is right and, Ford, where the customer didn't know what they wanted, was cultural/emotional vs. technological.
I'd bet on an emotional level when cars first came out, horses will still preferred, but the increased utility of cars in other areas of life, such as improved speed, length and comfort of transit overwhelmed the nostalgic and inertial factors that supported mounted transportation. Eventually because cars have all this added utility to life, (in addition to it's high entry cost leading to higher perceived value) owning one becomes the cool thing to do.
Revamping and modernizing the design on a juice carton loses nostalgic points and does not gain any utility points.
I'd say Henry Ford's quote about the customer not knowing what they want applies mostly in situations when a technological paradigm shift is on the horizon.
Lessons from the Tropicana Rebranding Disaster
PepsiCo has been trying to rebrand the Pepsi, Gatorade, Tropicana and Mountain Dew products. How's it going? Try this: "It represents perhaps the largest and most cavalier destruction of brand value we will ever see," says Grant McCracken, in his excellent analysis of what's gone wrong. Peter Ar...
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