+1: #530 Hagfish Are Pretty Freaky
Continuing our underwater theme for a moment longer, have you ever heard of hagfish? They're pretty creepy. (I apologize in advance for the visual image here but I think it's worth it…) Here'...
17 Sep 20182min
+1: #525 Work or Play?
In our last +1, we talked about W.H. Auden's (genius) quip that routine, in an intelligent person, is a sign of ambition. (I laugh with joy every time I type that.) Then we did a quick check in...
12 Sep 20183min
+1: #520 The $7 Trillion Mind-Hacking Industry
A couple +1s ago, while celebrating Yuval Noah Harari's lack of a smartphone, I mentioned the fact that we don't need to become smashing Luddites in response to the tsunami of technology that hammer...
7 Sep 20185min
+1: #515 Running Experiments
In our last +1, we talked about Professor Harari's two world maps—one before The Scientific Revolution that was all filled in (including areas they knew NOTHING about) and one after that had ple...
2 Sep 20184min
+1: #510 Demonstration vs. Instruction
Wallace D. Wattles was an old-school Philosopher-Optimizer who wrote The Science of Getting Rich. He also wrote a little book called The Science of Being Great. (Both of those titles are, of course,...
28 Aug 20183min
Optimizing Algorithms 101 (Intro)
26 Aug 20188min
+1: #505 Solvitur Ambulando
Today we're going to talk about walking. Walking is awesome. In fact, it's so old-school epically awesome in helping thinkers think that our ancient friends even had a Latin phrase to capture its p...
23 Aug 20182min
+1: #500 Thrown a Perfect Game Lately?
In our last +1, we talked about the fact that batting .300 over the course of your Major League Baseball career gets you in the Hall of Fame. Today we're going to continue the baseball metaphor. ...
18 Aug 20183min
