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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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Jung’s Mandala : Creativity , Culture , Mystery

[The Prometheus Shot – E009 :: Jung’s Mandala – Creativity, Culture, Mystery ]

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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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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 Beauty & Richness of Social Media : Personal Lessons after 2/3 years on X (Twitter)

Should you call someone an “Idiot” on social media? Should you explain things to trolls? Why aren’t people nice to strangers (especially when we can’t see their face)?