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Edison’s Ruthless Innovation: More than a Light Bulb

[The Prometheus Shot – E008 :: Edison’s Ruthless Innovation: More than a Light Bulb ]

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Ramanujan’s Math Visions: Will, Intuition, and Mentorship

[The Prometheus Shot – E007 :: Ramanujan’s Math Visions: Will, Intuition, and Mentorship ]

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Approximate Thinking, Politics, and Conflation : Rand & Lincoln

This post (podcast) is about a meta-example on Approximate Thinking and political discussions. Starting from a couple of examples, the power of identities and their role in understanding and obscuring (clarifying) thinking become evident.

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Miyazaki’s Worldly Wisdom: My Story Garden

[The Prometheus Shot – E006 :: Miyazaki’s Worldly Wisdom: My Story Garden ]

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Einstein the Icon: Relativity & Great Imagination

[The Prometheus Shot – E005 :: Einstein the Icon: Relativity & Great Imagination ]

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What is Your Version of Heaven?

If *you* could imagine your heaven, how would you make it?

What is the ‘ideal outcome’ of our Great Work?

If you could shape the world, how would that go?

This post is related to “The Atlas of Worldly Wisdom“, a course on the integration of better learning, better planning, and better work, into creativeness.

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Who Invents – Watt: Innovation, Steam Engines, & Industrial Revolutions

[The Prometheus Shot – E004 :: Who Invents – Watt: Innovation, Steam Engines, and Industrial Revolutions ]

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Apple Crushed : Advertising , Brands , and Greatness

[The Prometheus Shot – E003 :: Apple Crushed : Advertising, Brands, and Greatness ]

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What is your “Great Work”?

Or… Is your current work Great? (Check the questionnaire)

Are you doing what you should be doing? Does it make sense that all of us should be working on Great things? How can we find out?

The Atlas of Worldly Wisdom is – in a sense – a guide that aims to help the learner find and pursue their own “Great Work”.

In management, as should be the case in life, we frequently think about the most that can be achieved given the limited resources available to us (Optimization).

So the question is : What is our great work? How can we find it?

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The Three-Body Problem : Knowledge & Creativity in Great Sci-Fi

[The Prometheus Shot – E002 :: The Three-Body Problem : Knowledge & Creativity in Great Sci-Fi ]

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