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Delivering Happiness
Tony Hsieh
The tiny bees in my hive are more or less unaware of their colony. By definition their collective hive mind must transcend their small bee minds. As we wire ourselves up into a hivish network, many things will emerge that we, as mere neurons in the network, don’t expect, don’t understand, can’t control, or don’t even perceive. That’s the price for any emergent hive mind.
Out of Control
Kevin Kelly
Meyer pointed out that a typical lesson on the problem of “How long will it take to fill a water tank?” provides far too many tips and hints along the way. Meyer decided to “eliminate all the substeps given to kids, so they have to figure it out. Instead of telling them what matters, they need to decide what matters.” At first, Meyer began to strip a lot of the text out of his teaching materials, giving kids less, so they would have to ask and think more. Then he came up with an even better idea: He showed his class a video of a water tank filling up . . . “agonizingly slowly,” he says. Students began to “look at their watches, rolling their eyes. And they’re all wondering, at some point, ‘Man, how long is it gonna take to fill up?’ That’s how you know you’ve baited the hook.”
A More Beautiful Question
Warren Berger
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