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To think is to rehearse action without triggering it. Thought involves the excitation of motor neurons, but below the threshold at which the actions those neurons enervate would be emitted. In computer parlance, thought is virtual behavior.

— Genomes, Menomes, Wenomes: Neuroscience and Human Dignity by Robert W. Fuller

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  1. Talk We dropped our bags, five of us getting back from a trip to share our boons with the Wanukus. Meluna the designer, Sojuku the developer, Jakubu the technical architect, Danak the systems admin, and Kutoka the counter. Kutoka, being the oldest in the group, naturally feels the urge to start the conversation after a long and stressful trip. “So, that didn’t go as we expected, huh?” Silence. Meluna gasps in frustration “The Wanukus can be some of the most difficult group of people to get along with.” We went on a trip to the Wanukus after a long deliberation […]
  2. The key is to understand how intuition—specifically, informed intuition—actually works. Unlike numerical analysis, it does not rely on processing a statistically significant sample of data in order to achieve a given level of confidence. Rather, it involves conclusions based on isolating a few high-quality images—really, data fragments—that it takes to be archetypes of a broader and more complex reality. These images simply stand out from the swarm of mental material that rattles around in our heads. They are the ones that are memorable. So the first rule of working with an image is: If you can’t remember it, don’t […]
  3. I bet you’ve heard the saying “You can’t see the forest for the trees.” This saying stays true in the so-called “forest thinking” as well. When we analyze the intensive boundaries of a problem, considering every single aspect—or tree—of it, we can lose our focus on what matters. Instead of trying to narrow down if a particular dishwasher stopped working on Sunday afternoon, it’s more useful to see how often the dishwasher breaks down in general, how big the load is when it breaks down compared to the load when it works well, and so on. Forest thinking shows […]
  4. Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that’s unthinkable. — Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham Source: Amazon Kindle […]
  5. In epidemics, the messenger matters: messengers are what make something spread. But the content of the message matters too. And the specific quality that a message needs to be successful is the quality of “stickiness.” Is the message—or the food, or the movie, or the product—memorable? Is it so memorable, in fact, that it can create change, that it can spur someone to action? — The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell Source: Amazon Kindle […]

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