A diary of observations, inspirations & introspections.
“I just want guys who can shoot now,” he said. “If you have somebody on the floor who can’t score, you’re playing four against five. They just don’t guard them.”
Filed under specialists vs generalists strategy.
Source: The New York Times
Mercier and Sperber prefer the term “myside bias.” Humans, they point out, aren’t randomly credulous. Presented with someone else’s argument, we’re quite adept at spotting the weaknesses. Almost invariably, the positions we’re blind about are our own.
Source: getpocket.com
Once formed,” the researchers observed dryly, “impressions are remarkably perseverant.
Source: getpocket.com
A spiteful focus on the absence of intelligence now defines both the English word “idiot” and many recent characterizations of vast sectors of the American public. But imagine a term that instead designates people who are overly committed to their own private advantages. The map of American idiocy would shift dramatically.
Source: Washington Post
But even then, the take-no-prisoners wit was already on display, his ability to puncture pretensions and skewer assumptions. The skillful satire and the keen-eyed social observations almost threaten to distract from the rhythm of the prose, which at its best is entrancing and deceptively smooth.
— Paul Beatty becomes first American to win Man Booker Prize - The Washington Post
Source: Washington Post
“Because the long-run success of a song depends so sensitively on the decisions of a few early-arriving individuals, whose choices are subsequently amplified and eventually locked in by the cumulative-advantage process, and because the particular individuals who play this important role are chosen randomly and may make different decisions from one moment to the next, the resulting unpredictability is inherent to the nature of the market. It cannot be eliminated either by accumulating more information — about people or songs — or by developing fancier prediction algorithms, any more than you can repeatedly roll sixes no matter how carefully you try to throw the die.”
Source: The New York Times
If you want to persuade, appeal to interest not to reason.
— Benjamin Franklin
The practice of art isn’t to make a living. It’s to make your soul grow.
(via shoeboxtony)
Source: shoeboxtony
Let me ask you a question, OK? When you’re traveling at twice the speed of light, can you miss a stop sign?
— G. Chris Andersen speaking to Bloomberg - Drexel Burnham Oral History
…his songs carry a hard-earned wisdom that can only come from living on the street one block over from the edge of civility…
— Steve Wold artist biography on Rovi