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…you are less likely to achieve them: At first it seems silly, but I’ve definitely experienced this. You get a rush from people saying how interesting or exciting an idea is–”wow, that’s really cool, can’t wait to see/read/hear it!”–and that feedback does provide instant pleasure. There is definitely a danger of having that initial rush substitute [...]
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Regular readers will note that I am a big fan of TED–it’s heaven for someone afflicted with IADD (Intellectual Attention Deficit Disorder), as, I would argue I am. I recently came across this interesting, funny, and brief talk by Sebastian Wernicke, who illustrates how to engineer a great TED talk. Wernicke analyzed moutains of data [...]
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I’m hosting an event in Atlanta and will be there through the end of the week. While I’m away, check out this TED talk by V.S. Ramachandran which discusses the amazing subject of mirror neurons and their role in the propagation of culture. Enjoy.
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Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
