TUESDAY — TECHNOLOGY & WORK “It sounds pretty technical — and it was. The result was the first transistor, and it has utterly transformed our modern world.” — Michael J. Miller On December 16, 1947, a team at Bell Labs...
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MONDAY — THE HUMAN CONDITION “Talking out loud to yourself summons up the image of an imagined listener more vividly, allowing you to question yourself more critically by adopting an external perspective on your ideas, and so to consider shortcomings...
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THURSDAY — LEADERSHIP, HISTORY & POWER “While he had a good academic record, his sailing record proved to be poor.” — Patrick Bodovitz, TheCollector Alfred Thayer Mahan was a mediocre ship captain who crashed into friendly vessels, yet his writings...
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