Author: David Epstein

  1. Fermi problems - Calling bullshit - UW - deceptive stats
  2. Today’s world demands learning without experience
  3. Figlie Del Coro

Knowledge is a double-edged sword. It allows you to do some things, but it also makes you blind to other things that you could do.

  • Gunpei Yokoi

Nintendo

Lateral thinking with withered technology - The heart of his philosophy was putting cheap, simple tech to use in ways no one else considered. If he could not think more deeply about new technologies, he decided, he would think more broadly about old ones.

We need both focussed frogs and visionary birds