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What did your CV leave out?

Find the E · 01

A CV compresses years of work into titles, dates, and a few selected achievements.

What useful ability disappeared in the compression?

This is the first round of Find the E, inspired by my marginalium B = A + E: our representations of reality always contain an error. An incompleteness / blind spot / identity conflation / social inertia. A is the reality; B is the representation we use; E is the error, omission, or distortion between them.

Here, the CV stands in for a much more complicated person.

Let’s recover a missing line.

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What is Beauty? Does it Matter?

[The Prometheus Shot – EK04 :: Beauty ]

This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series.

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Knowledge and Books : A Mini-Series on Reading, Knowledge, & the Life of Ideas

In a noisy world drowning in information [and indifference], how we engage with books – and why we choose to read or skip them – matters more than ever. The Knowledge & Books mini-series of EtherCast is a thoughtful exploration of the practice, psychology, and meaning of reading, asking about what we read, why, how, and to what end.

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Approximate Thinking: The Creative Mental Model

[The Prometheus Shot – EK03 :: Approximate Thinking ]

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Inevitable Incompleteness of Knowledge: Gödel, Polanyi, You!

[The Prometheus Shot – EK02 :: Incompletness, Gödel, Polanyi, You! ]

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The Artist’s Creative Cage: Is Wes Anderson Stuck?

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Why Certainty is an Illusion: Bohr & Heisenberg’s Uncertainty

[The Prometheus Shot – EK01 :: Uncertainty, Bohr, Heisenberg ]

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Escher’s Vision – The Creativity of Integration & Transformation

[The Prometheus Shot – E013 :: Escher’s Vision – The Creativity of Integration & Transformation ]

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On the Virtues of (extreme) Imagination & Creativity : Sci-Fi and Fantasy (can be) Practical !

Extreme Imagination and Creativity (as in Sci-Fi and Fantasy) can be practical. They are useful as inspiration, for education, and even as inputs into scientific and engineering processes.

Here are a few thoughts on that.

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Why Schools (Universities) Kill Creativity

Do schools and universities really kill creativity?

Misaligned incentives, approximate thinking, and conflicting goals, can explain why the education system is perceived to be a creativity killer.