In Confessions of a Philosopher, an excitingly readable and thought-provoking introduction to philosophy written in a form of an autobiography, Bryan Magee tells us about his personal journey through philosophy, from having insoluble questions in…
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Why It Is Hard (and Bad) To Learn From Experience
Experience is a dear teacher. – Benjamin Franklin Benjamin Franklin is certainly right. However, learning from experience can be expensive. And quite hard. Kahneman and Tversky in their paper describe the main reasons why it…
Richard Feynman on the Importance of Learning Concepts Instead of Mere Facts
In the Graduate College dining room at Princeton everybody used to sit with his own group. I sat with the physicists, but after a bit I thought: It would be nice to see what the…
Rolf Dobelli on What to do Instead of Reading News
[…] If you want to keep the illusion of “not missing anything important”, I suggest you glance through the summary page of the Economist once a week. Don’t spend more than five minutes on…
Barry Diller on The Importance of Unlearning
[…] HOFFMAN: So how did you apply your blank page, your process, to the starting of your Internet businesses?DILLER: The first one is always the first, and then since I’m always up for anything, I…