In school, a lot of success is individual: How do I stand out? In life, most success is team-based: How can we work together? Grades reveal who is persistent, self-disciplined, and compliant—but they don’t reveal much about emotional intelligence, relationship skills, passion, leadership ability, creativity, or courage.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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Nothing can be preserved that is not good.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Twitter] @gtdguy
Yakobus Cavell here. I first read Getting Things Done in 2003 – about two years after David Allen’s seminal book was first published. I read his follow up Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life almost immediately after it was released in 2008. For some reason I didn’t get around to reading Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done until this past September.
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Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee, and it would take an autopsy to prove he was not a theologian.
~ H. L. Mencken
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Like so many other scientific scandals, the one Juliana Schroeder had identified quickly sank into a swamp of closed-door reviews and taciturn committees. Schroeder says that Harvard Business School declined to investigate her evidence of data-tampering, citing a policy of not responding to allegations made more than six years after the misconduct is said to have occurred.
~ Daniel Engber
via The Business-School Scandal That Just Keeps Getting Bigger
published in The Atlantic on November 19, 2024
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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
~ Walter Bagehot
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The road to the free market was opened and kept open by an enormous increase in continuous, centrally organized and controlled interventionism. To make Adam Smith’s “simple and natural liberty” compatible with the needs of a human society was a most complicated affair.
― Karl Polanyi
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As Hannah Arendt observed in The Origins of Totalitarianism, political purges often serve as jobs programs.
~ Thomas Chatterton Williams
via Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?
published by The Atlantic
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The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mobs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not in the nature of man to accept permanent failure.
~ Edmund Cooper
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