Charles Leon
Is Logic Overrated?

A story, which opens Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, is where I want to start, because it captures something a fourteen-month due-diligence process is structurally incapable of noticing about itself: it can be flawless and still be answering the wrong question. Logic needs the “gut” to decide…

Is Logic Overrated?
Charles Leon
Don't Colour Inside the Lines:

The question our schools must answer is not whether children should be creative. They already are. The question is whether we will have the wisdom — and the courage — to stop educating it out of them

Don't Colour Inside the Lines:
Charles Leon
What cave painters knew (and the rest of us ...

Art arrives by a different road entirely, bypassing the locked doors and finding the person still waiting inside. It is a small, quietly devastating observation, and it captures something that neuroscience has been methodically proving ever since: that engaging with art — making it, experiencing it, losing yourself in it — does something profound and measurable to the human brain.

What cave painters knew (and the rest of us forgot)
Charles Leon
The Audacity of Ideas:

Economists, bless them, have spent centuries trying to explain why some nations prosper and others flounder, filling blackboards with supply curves, liquidity traps, and enough Greek letters to staff an Athens phone book. And yet the answer may have been hiding in plain sight all along

The Audacity of Ideas:
Charles Leon
Brilliant Conditions

Brilliant Conditions V3

Why Culture Is the Greenhouse (or the Weedkiller) of Human Creativity 

On imagination, risk, and the surprisingly negotiable economics of permission

Brilliant Conditions

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Clouds and Clocks

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Clouds and Clocks

Systems and reductionist thinking.

According to Karl Popper, all problems are either Clocks or Clouds. A clock is something you can take to pieces analyze the parts and work out how it works. A cloud is a dynamic system, you can’t it apart. The way to understand a cloud is to study it in a holistic way.

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