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Jung’s Mandala : Creativity , Culture , Mystery

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

This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series.

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Who is getting replaced by AI?

Who feels threatened by AI? Why would you feel that your job and livelihood is at risk when people use AI more (effectively saying it is more convenient / cheaper)?

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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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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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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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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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To Know or To Do : Timing & Awareness-Intent-Creativeness (AIC)

When do you ‘do’? When do you ‘know’ enough?

Knowledge or Action?

The Awareness-Intent-Creativeness triple spiral is the central framework of The Atlas of Worldly Wisdom (TAWW). It is an attempt to simplify our understanding of work and our aspiration for creativeness.

To Know or To Do… That is the (real) Question!

The below are reflections on Knowledge vs Action, inspired by discussions in The Atlas of Worldly Wisdom.