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“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” Sherlock Holmes The future: four parts & three combinations We think and talk about “the future” a lot. Maybe it’s about our retirement plans. Maybe it’s about our company’s…
This continues the questions and comments that came from MindPrep 196 – You Tell Me. Ken wanted more re: “thinking blocks” and four versions of the future. Here are the thinking blocks. I’ll send the “four futures” in a few days. Thinking Blocks: we all have them! Marcel Straub on Unsplash “This book is concerned…
This is another follow-up to the comments I received from our newsletter, MindPrep 196 – You Tell Me. As mentioned last time I received a few responses to ten “notes in the margin” I listed from books on my shelf. In response to #1 (questions are the engine of intellect) Mary wondered how “the latest…
When the pandemic started “in earnest” in 2020 I responded to a blogpost from my friend Erica Nelson and wrote a month-long series of posts about books on my shelf and ideas I gained from them. You see, I like “real” books and I often write notes in the margin. I was keeping busy (all…
I was on the treadmill this morning pondering macroeconomics and whether cryptocurrency is part of the M1 or M2 money supply. (Darn impressive, huh?) And, as I considered my confusion about cryptocurrencies, I sensed something familiar from my youth. What was it? And then it hit me – cryptocurrencies are like baseball cards! Baseball cards…
Don’t fall in love with your idea — unless you have the data.
Are you ready for things that are already on the horizon?
Past + Present >>> Future As we prepare to launch our new course, Intercepting the Future, we’ve been digging into some of the tools and techniques that are needed for the foundational skills of learning from the past and responding to the present. And, in doing so, we keep running into a very uncomfortable reality – in…
Assumptions are as dangerous as high blood pressure
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