Everybody likes to be "in the know." The problem with this is that it's an impossible goal to achieve because knowledge is being created at an ever accelerating rate. This knowledge creation is a wonderful thing but it also implies that our ignorance is growing even faster (in the sense that it is impossible to [...]
(Dear Readers: Due to my extensive travel schedule, I will occasionally be sharing chapters from my latest book, Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future. I hope you enjoy today's fourth "unlearning" lesson: Argue with Yourself--It's Not Debatable.) “I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally [...]
(Dear Readers: Due to my extensive travel schedule, I will occasionally be sharing chapters from my latest book, Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future. I hope you enjoy today's third "unlearning" lesson: Don't Climb the Highest Mountain.) “If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.” – Juan Ramon Jimenez, 1956 Nobel [...]
(Dear Readers: Due to my extensive travel schedule, I will occasionally be sharing chapters from my latest book, Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future. I hope you enjoy today's second "unlearning" lesson: Don't Climb the Highest Mountain.) “In some sense our ability to open the future will depend not on how well we [...]
(Dear Readers: Due to my extensive travel schedule, I will occasionally be sharing chapters from my latest book, Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future. I hope you enjoy today's first "unlearning" lesson: Knowledge Can Kill.) “The most necessary part of learning is unlearning our errors.” -- Zeno Question #1: Estimate the number of [...]
The first chapter of my new book, Higher Unlearning: 39 Post-Requisite Lessons for Achieving a Successful Future, is entitled "Unlearn or Die." To better appreciate why unlearning will be such a critical skill in the future, I'd like to share this paragraph from Josh Linkner's outstanding article, Vu Deja: Tricking Yourself Into Looking At Problems [...]
(Editor's note: I was recently asked by The Food Ethic's Council in London to contribute a short piece on " a future ethical issue" as it might relate to food. Below is my contribution. As always, I'd welcome your feedback.) Rachel strolled down to her local grocery store and waved her smartphone across [...]
"We're going to have to make a lot of different assumptions," says the head of one large publishing in this article discussing the imminent demise of Border's -- one of the world's large bookstores. The individual is, of course, correct but the real question is why he (or she) didn't begin questioning his [...]
”Be very, very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.”—Thomas Cardinal Wolsey Question: What two colors are the yield sign? Did you say yellow and black? That answer would have been correct if Marcus Welby, M.D. was still the top-rated TV show; Richard Nixon occupied the White [...]
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