Thought provoking

"Dios piensa en números", solía decir la tía Len. "Los números son la manera en que se ensambla el mundo. " Esta idea nunca me había abandonado, y ahora me parecía abarcar todo el mundo físico. En aquella época había comenzado a leer algo de filosofía, y Leibniz, en la medida que podía comprenderlo, me atraía especialmente. Hablaba de una "matemáti... See more

The human brain is hardwired to infer intentions behind words. Every time you engage in conversation, your mind automatically constructs a mental model of your conversation partner. You then use the words they say to fill in the model with that person’s goals, feelings and beliefs.

Perhaps, if your goal is to discover novel ideas, your motto should not be "do what you love" so much as "do what you're curious about."

Great artists don’t study art history to figure out what art to create. Great founders don’t analyze the market to figure out what product to build.