Charlie Munger on Academic Economics: Strengths and Weaknesses, Considering Interdisciplinary Needs

vutran | April 28, 2021, 7:29 a.m.

"What I’ve urged is the use of a bigger multidisciplinary bag of tricks, mastered to fluency, to help economics and everything else. And I also urged that people not be discouraged by irremovable complexity and paradox. It just adds more fun to the problems. My inspiration again is Keynes: Better roughly right than precisely wrong. And so I end by repeating what I said once before on a similar occasion. If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands."

—  Charlie Munger

Geoff Colvin on deliberate practice

vutran | April 27, 2021, 8:10 p.m.

“Deliberate practice is hard. It hurts. But it works. More of it equals better performance and tons of it equals great performance.” 

— Geoff Colvin

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 

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

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic on communication mechanism and slideument

vutran | April 27, 2021, 6:29 a.m.

—  Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

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