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Exposing the Titans of Capital with Peter Phillips - Macro N Cheese
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future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
On early scientific discoveries: To peer into the nucleus and discover a new and important phenomenon that no one had ever glimpsed “was like the trembling of the veil that poets write about,” Wilczek says. “Something was stirring deep in the heart of nature.”
Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
“for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures.”4
Cesar Hidalgo • Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Sorrentino’s Aberration of Starlight,
D. T. Max • Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
This is not unique to the federal government. It happens in all, particularly large, organizations. Expertise has this inherent defect. But in the federal government, the problem is the size of the defect.
George Friedman • The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Coming Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond
Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy Book 11)
The Feynman style owed a great deal to the personality of the man. In his professional and private life he seemed to treat the world as a hugely entertaining game. The physical universe presented him with a fascinating series of puzzles and challenges, and so did his social environment.