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Book cover for The Great Mental Models, Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
In many areas of life, we rely on maps offered by others. We depend on the maps provided by experts, pundits, and teachers. In these cases, the best we can do is to choose our mapmakers wisely, to seek out those who are rigorous, ...more
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Jeff Sutherland
“Often when people talk about great teams, they only talk about that transcendent sense of purpose.”
Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

Jeff Sutherland
“Often when people talk about great teams, they only talk about that transcendent sense of purpose. But while that’s a critical element, it’s only one leg of the three-legged stool. Just as critical, but perhaps less celebrated, is the freedom to do your job in the way that you think best—to have autonomy. On all great teams, it’s left to the members to decide how to carry out the goals set by those leading the organization.”
Jeff Sutherland, Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

Michael   Lewis
“In the stock market the more elaborate and abstruse the mathematics the more uncertain and speculative the conclusion we draw therefrom….”
Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

Michael   Lewis
“A man who can tell a good story can make a good living as a broker.”
Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

Daron Acemoğlu
“For economists, Argentina is a perplexing country. To illustrate how difficult it was to understand Argentina, the Nobel Prize–winning economist Simon Kuznets once famously remarked that there were four sorts of countries: developed, underdeveloped, Japan, and Argentina.”
Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

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