H.L. Mencken on the best teacher
vutran | April 27, 2021, 7:57 p.m.
“The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.”
—H.L. Mencken
Read More →Abraham Maslow on growth and fear
vutran | April 27, 2021, 7:50 a.m.
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
― Abraham Maslow
Read More →John Maynard Keynes on changing our mind
vutran | April 25, 2021, 4:11 p.m.
"When the facts change, I change my mind"
— John Maynard Keynes
Kim Scott on the essence of making an idea clear
vutran | April 25, 2021, 3:15 p.m.
"The essence of making an idea clear requires a deep understanding not only of the idea but also of the person to whom one is explaining the idea."
— Kim Scott
Farnam Street on getting things right vs being right
vutran | April 25, 2021, 2:33 p.m.
"When you care more about getting things right than being right, you get better outcomes and you save time and energy."
— Farnam Street
Farnam Street on the Common Denominator of Success
vutran | April 25, 2021, 2:32 p.m.
“The common denominator of success — the secret of success of every man who has ever been successful — lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don’t like to do.”
— Farnam Street
Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner on foresight
vutran | April 20, 2021, 1:11 p.m.
"Foresight isn’t a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs."
— Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner in Superforecasting
