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Feeding Chickens with Filmmaker Loren Mendell
Years ago, my younger brother, Loren, and I traveled to Uruguay to study Spanish and eat grilled meat. Our return ...
When is New Information Important?
How important is new information? How do we know? Often, we don’t, according to a study in a September 2024 paper ...
The Joy of Knowing the Speed of Light and Math of Tennis
Did you know that the Earth is round? As a kid, I would flip through a set of Charlie Brown Encyclopedias and ...
Three Thoughts on Thursday about Thinking
T-H-I-N-K
Often, it’s not until years later, after you’ve had a chance to manage or motivate people, lead a ...
Creative Work and Role Models
I can basically do one round of creative work each day. Maybe two. No more. The attention, capacity, and focus ...
Managing Trees, Managing People: Nothing is Independent
As a kid, I learned that the “knee bone connected to the thigh bone” thanks to the School House Rock song “Them ...
We are Lucky: Observations on Dishwashers and Cherry Pickers
How to Load a Dishwasher
Take a break from fixing the world via social media to consider the art of loading ...
Bad Dates, Cookie Lies, and Waking in Ukraine
Years before getting married, I went on a date to a forgotten restaurant for an unremarkable meal. However, I ...
Perspectives on Risk: Transparency and Competence
Introduction
When it comes to managing positive and negative risks, I think in terms of “transparency” and ...
Logic, Passion, and the Rule of 72
I am passionate about learning and logical, rational thinking. If something does not make sense or fails to ...
Brooks Writes Stories: How Did It Go in 2024?
Happy New Year. Since 2017, I have submitted and tracked my fiction writing, and posted annual updates (2018, ...
Learn One New Thing Today
Beaverball, my book about a season with the MIT baseball team, includes stories about how we sometimes shared a ...
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