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Shane Snow
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September 25 - September 28, 2023
In an age of platforms, creative problem solving is more valuable than computational skill.
We need to know enough about statistics to call BS on propaganda.
We ought to be able to identify a good deal on a dinner menu.
platforms can help us master those basics faster than learning the...
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Albert Einstein is famously quoted: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” He didn’t actually say it.*
Finland made teaching jobs more desirable and job competition increased.
Teaching in Finland became a prestigious profession where master’s degrees were required to teach on every level.
(Roughly half of American teachers leave in the first five years.)
better-trained teacher is more adept at teaching children how to learn, whereas the coach-turned-geography-teacher will often teach how to memorize.
Finnish education reflects that: it focuses on teaching students how to think, not what to think.
Dr. Seuss, goes: “It is better to know how to learn than to know.”*
Edward de Bono, who coined the term “lateral thinking” in 1967,
DHH “would spend exactly the shortest amount of time in any given series that I could before it was good enough to move up to the next thing.”
I just know how to train.”
DHH had proven he had the skill to race.
“You can build on top of a lot of things that exist in this world,” David Heinemeier Hansson told
“Somebody goes in and does that hard, ground level science based work. “And then on top of that,” he smiles, “you build the art.”
Huntington Beach, California,
“It’s just a matter of waiting for the right wave.”
Luck is often talked about as “being in the right place at the right time.”
some people—and companies—are adept at placing themselves at the right place at the right time. They seek out opportunity rather than wait for it.
Opportunity Right time
A wave is made up of alternating crests and troughs that from the side look like a squiggly line. When two waves collide, one of two things can happen: they can cancel each other out or, if timed just right, they can combine and increase in intensity.
destructive and constructive interference. The former means the waves collide and go flat. The latter forms a megawave.
“There are people who make careers based on the fact that they know how to read the ocean better than others,”
“It’s just about knowing the ocean. It’s timing.”
“Intuition is the result of nonconscious pattern recognition,”
Intuition
“20% Time” is not Google indigenous.
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, aka 3M, which allowed its employees to spend 15 percent of their work hours experimenting with new ideas, no questions asked.
Ryan Tate called The 20% Doctrine)
companies that are too focused on defending their current business practice and too fearful to experiment often get overtaken.
an early leader became the market leader in a category.
Steve Blank points out in his article for Business Insider, “You’re Better Off Being a Fast Follower Than an Originator,”
Sonny Moore, now the artist known as Skrillex,
A casual observer might conclude that Sonny just happened to be in the right place at the right time, two times. That he was just lucky. But that’s not what happened.
he tried some things that didn’t work (a solo career as a rock singer) and was quick to shift strategies.
SUPERCONNECTORS “Space, Wars, and Storytellers”
superconnecting, the act of making mass connections by tapping into hubs with many spokes.
Your friend is a superconnector.
Superconnector
The first broadcast from Guevara’s ham radio transmitter only went a few hundred yards.
“Fidel was putting into words things that we all felt. Our morale was strong.”
The radio had superconnected the revolutionaries with the Cuban people, and together they achieved victory in astonishingly short time.
after he became wildly successful; it turns out that even once he was on top, he continued to cowrite, codirect, and cocreate almost all his projects.
He started lending his own Sinatra-style credibility to less known but talented writers and directors and actors, so they could climb their ladders faster.
Dr. Adam Grant, professor of organizational psychology at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, says this is because J. J. Abrams is “a give...
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J. J. Abrams is a fantastic collaborator.
Grant writes in Give and Take. “It just involves a focus on acting in the interests of others, such as by giving help, providing mentoring, sharing credit, or making connections for others.”
Abrams helped out better-connected people than himself, and doing so helped him superconnect.
once he was the superconnector, he still helped people.
offer a half-price coupon for the book to anyone who bought a 50-pound bag of dog food.
“The number one problem with networking is people are out for themselves,” says Scott Gerber, founder of the Young Entrepreneur Council, who coined the term superconnector.
