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Real Intelligence
Over the past few years I’ve been thinking about real politics: what it means, and how it might be applied to theories of thinking and intelligence. What follows is an attempt to…
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Taking an Open Position
Sometimes the most effective way to raise risk is not by taking a position, but by offering an observation. I think of this as taking an open position. An open position doesn’t…
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The Limits of Our Best Thinking
The Limits of Our Best Thinking is an examination of how capable people and institutions lose intelligence through what they do, and do not, pay attention to. The book begins from the…
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Finding a muse
A muse is a way of orienting attention. The chosen muse helps you find both direction and motion through something it embodies: a mood, a seriousness, a way of speaking, a posture…
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How professions think
An examination of how different professions attend to reality, solve problems, and miss what falls outside their field of vision. This book grew out of a long-standing interest in how different professions…